Volute tendril
In ornamentation , a tendril with one or more volutes is called a volute tendril . Instead of the special term volute tendril , the general term tendril is usually used.
Volutes at the tendril ends or at the end of side branches are called tendril volutes . Here, too, the general term volute is usually preferred.
Image 1: Anthemion ( lotus palmette frieze ), including a band with S-shaped double volutes.
Image 2: Ornamental frieze with leafy wavy tendril and flowers in the volutes.
Image 3: Candelabra decorative relief with palmette and scroll tendrils.
Image 4: Flat plate with border made of S-shaped double volutes.
Image 5: Wrought iron Art Nouveau grille with a wickerwork of intertwined volute tendrils.
Side shoots can branch off from the main shoot of a scroll tendril, which, like the main shoot, can end in scrolls (Fig. 2, 8) .
A main branch without side branches forms an S-shaped (fig. 1, 4) or C-shaped ( fig . 3, 6) double volute . Several double volutes can be unconnected (Fig. 1) or strung together with brackets (Fig. 6-7) to form a tendril ribbon. S-shaped double volutes in the same direction can also be connected to form a ribbon called a running dog (Fig. 9) .
Tendril volutes can run out freely (Fig. 1, 4, 6) , be connected to other ornamental links (Fig. 5) and, in multiple interlacing, form networks or braids that are difficult to untangle (Fig. 5) . The volutes can also have leaves, flowers or fruits at the free ends (Fig. 2-4, 7-8) , or any other object or a human or animal figure (Fig. 8) can sprout out of them.
Image 6: Modern wrought iron window grilles with clamped C-shaped double volutes.
Figure 7: terracotta - Fries with Lorbeerkranz , cymatium and anthemion (Lotus palmetto Fries).
Image 8: Allegory of life with volute tendrils that grow out of the bodies of children.
Image 9: Mosaic floor from Pergamon : meander ribbon , zigzag ribbon , running dog, scroll tendril, braided ribbon .
literature
- Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin: A history of ornament, ancient and medieval , London 1916 ( PDF ).
- Ulrich Holtfester: The ionic anthemion , Münster 2001 ( PDF ).
- Franz Sales Meyer: A handbook of ornament , New York [no year], especially Division II ( PDF ).
- Franz Sales Meyer: Handbuch der Ornamentik , Stuttgart 1993, especially section II.
