Handbook for architects and builders . Plate V. The Corinthian Order has been represented with considerable variationsfrom the original type. The Ionic entablature was often usedby the ancients, supported by Corinthiancolumns, and the Corinthian cornice It-self, though here represented with a den-til band, is often found without general rule appears to exist torspacing the modillions or for their di-mensions, the ratio of the width of themodillion to the space between two ofthem varying from 1:1% to 1:2%,and again the number of the dentils be-tween the modillions varies from 2 to 5in di
Handbook for architects and builders . Plate V. The Corinthian Order has been represented with considerable variationsfrom the original type. The Ionic entablature was often usedby the ancients, supported by Corinthiancolumns, and the Corinthian cornice It-self, though here represented with a den-til band, is often found without general rule appears to exist torspacing the modillions or for their di-mensions, the ratio of the width of themodillion to the space between two ofthem varying from 1:1% to 1:2%,and again the number of the dentils be-tween the modillions varies from 2 to 5in different examples. Both features should be symmetricallyplaced with reference to one another andto the centre line of the column, a pointoften neglected. To secure this resultthe following method is recommended :—Draw a modillion one-sixth of the diam-eter of the column in width, arrangedsymmetrically over the centre line of thecolumn. Place another with its outsideedge three and a half times its widthwithin the total projection of t
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