Bowtell

For the English topographer, see John Bowtell.

Bowtell is derived from the medieval term bottle;^[1] in architecture it refers to a round or corniced molding below the abacus in a Tuscan or Roman Doric capital; the word is a variant of boltel, which is probably the diminutive of bolt, the shaft of an arrow or javelin. A roving bowtell is one which passes up the side of a bench end and round a finial, the term roving being applied to that which follows the line of a curve.

Notes

^ Treatise on architecture:..., ed. Arthur Ashpitel, p. 94, (Edinburgh 1867). A round molding can also be referred to as a torus.

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

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