In architecture and decorative art, ornament is a decoration used to embellish parts of a building or object.
A wide variety of decorative styles and motifs have been developed for architecture and the applied arts, including pottery, furniture, metalwork.
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Different Ornament With Different Country
Malay ornaments
Most of Malay houses have a typical roof ornament, a crossed roof edge structure forming "x"-like pinnacle ornament on the edge of the roof.
This kind of ornament can be found in Lontik, Lipat Kajang and Limas styles.
In Peninsular Malaysia's east coast, many houses have distinctive carved roof gable-end boards akin to those in Thailand and Cambodia.
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Ornament may be carved into stone or wood to resemble leaves from the Mediterranean species of the Acanthus genus of plants, which have deeply cut leaves with some similarity to those of the thistle and poppy.
Both Acanthus mollis and the still more deeply cut Acanthus spinosus have been claimed as the main model, and particular examples of the motif may be closer in form to one or the other species; the leaves of both are in any case, rather variable in form
The motif is found in decoration in nearly every medium.
Figure 3: Composite capital with acanthus leaves
Pugin's Gothic Ornaments
The 100 superb royalty-free plates in the present volume have been meticulously reproduced from a very rare early edition of plates dating from 1828–31.
Here is a wealth of floral, foliate, and other designs rendered from panels, capitals, borders, brackets, friezes, and other decorative elements adorning (primarily) ecclesiastical architecture.
Now regarded as one of the major sourcebooks of Gothic ornamentation.
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