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    Bead and reel is an architectural motif, usually found in sculptures, moldings and numismatics. It consists in a thin line where beadlike elements alternate...
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    the bead and reel pattern, the central flame palmette design and a variety of other moldings, to the lifelike rendering of animal sculpture and the design...
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    including volute, bead and reel, meander or honeysuckle designs. This monumental piece of architecture tends to suggest the Achaemenid and Hellenistic artistic...
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    Beading or bead: Moulding in the form of a row of half spherical beads, larger than pearling Other forms: Bead and leaf, bead and reel, bead and spindle...
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    Pillars of Ashoka (category Monuments and memorials in Bihar)
    Rampurva bull, the Sankissa elephant and the Allahabad pillar capital) use bands of motifs, like the bead and reel pattern, the ovolo, the flame palmettes...
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    Sistine Chapel ceiling (category Harv and Sfn no-target errors)
    and dart' and 'bead and reel'. Sixtus IV and Julius II were both of the Della Rovere family. "Rovere" in Italian means 'oak'. The scallop shell (and pearl)...
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    egg and dart, Bead and reel, Pakudos, Swastika, Adinkra symbols. Figurative: Master of Animals, confronted animals, velificatio, Death and the Maiden, Three...
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    Megasthenes, Deimachus and Dionysius, stayed at the Mauryan court in Pataliputra. The scope of adoption goes from designs such as the bead and reel pattern, the...
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    oval frames. It can be considered a relative or subsidiary form of the bead and reel motif. If there is a pearl circle or a string of pearls on coins, it...
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    [citation needed] depicted on the front on the coin and surrounded by the royal bead-and-reel decoration, and therefore treated on the same level as a King...
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    Obv: Bust of Eucratides, helmet decorated with a bull's horn and ear, within bead and reel border. Rev: Dioscuri, each holding palm in left hand, spear...
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    that at the Erechtheion. A much applied narrow moulding is called "bead and reel" and is symmetrical, stemming from turned wooden prototypes. Wider mouldings...
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    Sanchi (category 3rd-century BC religious buildings and structures)
    decorated with rows of repeating rosettes, ovolos and bead and reel mouldings, wave-like scrolls and side volutes with central rosettes, around a prominent...
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    key", egg-and-dart, bead and reel, Vitruvian scroll, guilloche, and from the plant world the stylized acanthus leaves, volute, palmette and half-palmette...
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    Dura-Europos synagogue (category 3rd-century religious buildings and structures)
    with bead-and-reel designs on the corners. On the corners of the strips, there are three-petal like strokes. Inside the frame, there are wavy green and dark...
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    and other moulding were not painted and remained the marble white colour. These designs were for the against blue painted backgrounds. The bead and reel...
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    Rampurva bull, the Sankissa elephant and the Allahabad pillar capital) use bands of motifs, like the bead and reel pattern, the ovolo, the flame palmettes...
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    Erechtheion (category Ancient Greek buildings and structures in Athens)
    column capitals and epicranitis of the temple. Additionally, egg-and-dart, egg and leaf, bead and reel, lesbian cyma, guilloches, and rosettes are liberally...
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    Temple of Sangri (category Buildings and structures in Naxos)
    second and fifth intercolumniation, led from the entrance area to the naos. The doorway was decorated with bands lined with a large bead and reel pattern...
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    Guilford Puteal (category Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures in the British Museum)
    it passed to him its upper moulding, much of the bead-and-reel decoration of its lower moulding, and (most likely from an act of vandalism of unknown...
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    Pataliputra capital, showing both Achaemenid and Greek influence, with volute, bead and reel, meander and honeysuckle designs. Early Mauryan period, 4th-3rd...
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    Sirkap (category Bactrian and Indian Hellenistic colonies)
    Sirkap (Urdu and Punjabi: سرکپ) is the name of an archaeological site on the bank opposite to the city of Taxila, Punjab, Pakistan. The city of Sirkap...
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    Uffizi. The entablature and the cornice is decorated with egg-and-dart, bead-and-reel and flower-patterned enrichments. The pilasters are of polished white...
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    Greco-Bactrian Kingdom (category States and territories established in the 3rd century BC)
    the bead and reel pattern, the central flame palmette design and a variety of other moldings, to the lifelike rendering of animal sculpture and the design...
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    Restoration of the Sistine Chapel frescoes (category Conservation and restoration of paintings)
    a secco detailing of the architecture: the scallop shells, acorns and "bead and reel" ornament which Michelangelo possibly would have left for completion...
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    Strato II (redirect from Strato II and III)
    supplanted by the Indo-Scythian Northern Satraps, particularly Rajuvula and Bhadayasa, whose coins were often copied on those of the last Indo-Greek...
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    Hearthstone Castle (category Buildings and structures in Danbury, Connecticut)
    bands and with bead-and-reel and egg-and-dart moldings at the ceiling. In the chimney breast is a niche, also rimmed with studded iron bands, and the lining...
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    Capital (architecture) (category Columns and entablature)
    of rosettes, eleven in total for the fronts and four for the sides. Below that is a band of bead and reel pattern, then under it a band of waves, generally...
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    Caubiac Treasure (category Ancient Greek and Roman objects in the British Museum)
    decorated with bead and reel D. Strong, Greek and Roman Silver Plate (British Museum Press, 1966) L. Burn, The British Museum Book of Greek and Roman Art (British...
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  • of the Styles Battlement Baubotanik Bauhaus Bay Bay-and-gable Bay window Beach house Bead and reel Beaux-Arts architecture Bed-mould Beehive house Belarusian...
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