Illustrated Architecture Dictionary ........ Illustrated FURNITURE Glossary

Swan's neck pediment
Also called broken pediment

Architecture

A type of broken pediment with S-shaped curves, like two swans' necks facing each other

A finial often rises between the scrolls

Found in Colonial Revival, Federal, Georgian Revival styles

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Furniture

Referred to as bonnet top or gooseneck or broken pediment or scrolled pediment

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Examples from Buffalo architecture:

• Illustration above: Genesee Building/Hyatt Regency-Buffalo
  
  
• 447 Linwood Avenue
  
  
• 143 Linwood Avenue
  
  
• 40 North St.
  
  
• Lackawanna Public Library
  
  
• Knox House
  
  
• Ansley Wilcox Mansion / Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site
  
  
• 109 Linwood Ave.
  
  
• Wendt House

Other examples:

• Drayton Hall near Charleston, S.C.
  
  
• Grand Théâtre,, Geneva, Switzerland
  
  
• Oshevnev House, Kizhi, Russia