A caulicule or little volute under the abacus of the Corinthian capital.
A crude anticipation of the volute is found in Phoenician work, and it also appears on a Hittite relief at Boghaz Keui in the middle of Asia Minor.
Rudimentary anticipations of the Ionic volute are found in Phoenician capitals, vague reminiscences of what the traders had seen in Egypt and elsewhere.
In the centre of the volute is a stud of marble separately made.
Pentelic marble; width from centre of volute to centre of volute, 12-3/4 inches.
A volute and a complete base of an Ionic column were discovered, but were immediately destroyed by Arabs.
In the eye of this volute a rose is sculptured in relief.
Volute of Ionic capital, which, according to Inwood (p.
One of the most favourite decorations amongst Cretan artists is the eight-limbed octopus, and it is believed that the Mykenian volute or spiral is a variant of this emblem.
There is no form of the volute known to the architect which may not be found in the rocks, but there are many forms in the rocks unknown to the architect.
Defn: A caulicule or little volute under the abacus of the Corinthian capital.
Volute spiring, a spring formed of a spiral scroll of plate, rod, or wire, extended or extensible in the direction of the axis of the coil, in which direction its elastic force is exerted and employed.
Fiddle head, an ornament on a ship's bow, curved like the volute or scroll at the head of a violin.
A great many modified forms exist, ogee and volute as well as rectilinear, while various decorative designs, as Greek fret or meander, are derived from or closely associated with it.
In one of the specimens the ogee ends finish in a point; in the other they finish in a spiral volute turning upon itself.
There are four volute arms which start from the opposite sides of this circle, and in their spiral form extend to the right across the field, increasing in size as they approach the periphery.
The volute form is particularly adapted to the decoration of basketry, of which fig.
Spiral-volute designs resembling the Swastika in general effect are found on aboriginal mound pottery from the Mississippi Valley.
V]-shaped in strong lines, the body in volute fashion; on the outside of the circle the tail is shown by its rattle.
These are Greek and Latin terms for the spiral volute with three branches or arms.
The long curved lines indicate the laminations of the shell, and the three crescent-shaped figures near the center are perforations resulting from the deep engraving of the three lines of the volute on the concave side.
When a husk consists of two or more parts, each of which has a separate shaft and volute, uniting in the pillar and volute of the flower, each separate piece of the husk is called a 'carpel.
These columns, of wood rather than of stone or brick, form a gallery over the façade, and they are adorned at their upper extremity with a double volute as a capital.
The shank, formerly screwed into the boss, is now pushed through and kept up against the collar of the boss, by the volute spring, which at the same time presses back the hinged flukes after being displaced by a rock.
In them will be noticed the Orientalism that occasionally prevails, and shows its Byzantine parentage; a trace of the Greek volute and acanthus leaf is visible in Figs.
To both the scroll or volute and the fret, and modifications of them ages later, the Pueblo has attached meanings.
Thus, according to this view, the volute of the Ionic capital is merely a drooping lotus sepal, which became spiral in the Grecian Archipelago.
It is here shown combined with the second volute in the form of a reverse curve.
It is the Ionic volute handed down to us in its present form from the time of the Greeks, who developed it to a high state of perfection.
As the thread unwinds from the dowel the point of the pencil will describe a volute which may be developed indefinitely.
It is advisable to form several templates for the volute out of bent wrought iron, of different sizes, and to practice drawing the curve many times to accustom the hand and the eye to its changes of direction.
Describe and explain the use of the Ionic volute in contour enrichment of metal.
In Figure 162, it has been combined with a smaller but reversed voluteat the upper end.
Thus the interior of the peg-box will be found a convenient position from which to build a support that shall reach up underneath the volute or under turn of the scroll.
Give the nautilus itself to a mathematician, and he will show you that one secret of its gracefulness lies in its following in its volute or whorl a particular geometrical curve with rigid precision.
We view it as supplying that link of connection between the Volutinae and the Mitranae, the Volute and the Mitre shells, which we had long been in search of.
Sowerby for calling our attention to the remarkable construction of this Volute Mitre, of which we had not then seen a specimen.
These are of a Composite variety, in which the part of the volute is played by griffins, while the lower part of the capital is rich with foliage of a Byzantine type.
Most of them show various forms of foliage and animal figures; the old law that almost any kind of man, beast, or bird, can be pressed to serve as the volute at the corner of a capital is here most fully carried out.
It was until lately known as the Voluta pacifica, being one of the well-known Volute family.
The supposed original form of a shell was that of a volute univalve, such as the Triton (now Lotorium), or Struthiolaria.
And the Child shut his eyes and listened, with one hand round a horn of the volute shell, and the other laid on the Nautilus, whilst the Velella unfurled her sail before them in the sunshine; and he thought his dream had come true.
Thus the day wore away: the sweet hymn floated through the silence until the Child was nearly wearied out with pleasure; and the Nautilus, and the Velella, and the Volute turned their course homeward.
The volute is here quite simple in shape; elsewhere we find it doubled, as it were, so that four volutes occur between the astragali and the abacus (Figs.
This volute is found all over Assyria and Chaldæa.
By these means certain primitive types of ornament are evolved, such as the Greek voluteand the Greek key or fret, the logical ornament of a logical people.
Recurring Line and Form] The everlastingly recurring egg and dart moulding and the volute are instances of the harmonious effect of very simple arrangements of recurring line and form.
The voluteor scroll itself as an independent decorative motive may have originated in successive variations of Egyptian lotus-patterns.
