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A gable or facade with a decorative shape characteristic of traditional Dutch architecture. The top of the gable is shaped like a church bell. Coffer A sunken panel in the shape of a square, rectangle, or octagon that serves as a decorative device, usually in a ceiling or vault. Also called caissons, or lacunar. [15] Colarin or Hypotrachelium
The frieze is one of the major decorative elements of the building and carries a sculptured relief. In the case of Ionic and Corinthian architecture, the relief decoration runs in a continuous band, but in the Doric order, it is divided into sections called metopes, which fill the spaces between vertical rectangular blocks called triglyphs. The ...
Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, England, built between 1845 and 1851.It exhibits three typical Italianate features: a prominently bracketed cornice, towers based on Italian campanili and belvederes, and adjoining arched windows.
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Although many styles in different media may be called "ornate", ornate style as a distinct style term is used in two contexts: The Red-figure vase painting of ancient Greece, where it, and a contrasting "plain style", developed in Apulia around 400 BC. The third of the Pompeian Styles of ancient Roman wall-paintings, popular around 20–10 BC.
A needlecase or needle case is a small, often decorative, holder for sewing needles. Early needlecases were usually small tubular containers of bone, wood, or bronze with tight-fitting stoppers, often designed to hang from a belt. Needlecases are sometimes called by the French name étui and are typically one of the tools attached to a chatelaine.
Decorative Hardware of the Victorian Era: An American. Perspective, Raheel Ahmad; History and Style of Victorian Architecture and Hardware; Manchester, a Victorian City; Photographs of Victorian Homes in Hamilton, Ontario Canada; Victorian era architecture in San Francisco, California; Victorian era architecture and history in Buffalo, New York
Before the game starts, a case is selected, and one player reads the case file. This fills in the players on the background of the case as well as listing the location of each clue in the case booklet. A place may provide no clue, or only a part of one. Clues may also be entirely irrelevant, or throw a player off entirely.