Rosette (ornamentation)
Rosettes are decorative round elements e.g. B. in the middle of larger areas and as keystones of cross vaults . Rosettes are decorated with geometric shapes, spirals and also leaves and flowers; coats of arms or angels (making music) appear less often .
A special rosette shape is the fan rosette (also called "half rosette").
use
Examples of using rosettes or rosette-like shapes as an ornament:
- Rose window
- Decorative element on Indian stupa fences ( vedikas ) , on temple ceilings or on pillars (here as fan rosettes)
- Decorated cover plate for door locks (hence the name door rosette ) or window handles
- as a carving on the sound hole of certain stringed instruments (e.g. lutes)
- on clothing
- to medals (e.g. Médaille de la Résistance )
- on pies, cakes and sweet pastries
- Pilsdeckchen (also called "Bierrosette" or "Pilsrosette")
- temporarily as the mint master's mark of the Freiberg mint (1428–1441 and 1465–1500)
- On coins as a decorative element
- on coat of arms , so in the Warendorf district or its predecessor
- Rasulid rosette , a coat of arms of the Rasulids
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