Beads and Egg-and-dart: Details on Moldings

A set of small-scale ornaments on moldings. The bead-and-reel is a series of equally spaced small spheres, sometimes with a flat disc between the spheres; the egg-and-dart is a series of semi-oval egg shapes, with a pointed dart between every two eggs. Their size is very small, with units only one to two centimeters, continuously carved into the concave and convex parts of cornice moldings and door frames. All are white. Avoid: making the ornaments too large, making the unit spacing irregular, omitting these details to make the moldings smooth, using colored and gilded treatments.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一組線腳上的小尺度紋飾。珠飾是一列等距的小圓球,有時圓球之間夾著一個扁的圓盤;蛋鏢是一列半橢圓的蛋形,每兩個蛋之間夾著一個尖形的鏢。它們的尺寸很小,單元只有一到兩公分,以連續的方式雕在簷口線腳與門框的凹凸處。全部是白色的。避免:把紋飾做得過大、讓單元的間距不規則、省略這些細節讓線腳變成光滑的斷面、使用彩色與貼金的處理。