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2. Finial - Wikipedia

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   The very top of a finial can be a floral or foliated element called a bouquet. [4] Smaller finials in materials such as metal or wood are used as a decorative ornament on the tops or ends of poles or rods such as tent-poles or curtain rods or any object such as a piece of furniture. These are frequently seen on top of bed posts or clocks.

3. Sōrin - Wikipedia

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   The most important stone pagoda having a finial is the hōkyōintō. Usually made in stone and occasionally metal or wood, hōkyōintō started to be made in their present form during the Kamakura period. Like a gorintō, they are divided in five main sections, of which the sōrin is the uppermost. [12] Its components are, from the top down ...

4. Torah finials - Wikipedia

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   Samaritan Torah scroll, Mount Gerizim Samaritan synagogue, Mount Gerizim. The Rimmonim can be seen on top of the rollers. Torah finials or rimonim / rimmonim (Hebrew: רִמּוֹנִיִם, lit. "pomegranates"), singular: rimmon / rimon) are silver or gold finials adorning the top ends of the rollers (עצי חיים Atzei Chaim) of a Sefer Torah (Torah scroll).

5. Alam (finial) - Wikipedia

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   [8] [5] [7] [6] [1] [9] [2] In Ottoman Turkish, the corresponding word alem means a military banner consisting of a tall pole (sap) with a silk flag or banner (sancak) topped by a metal finial (saifa). In modern Turkish, sancak can apply to the whole standard and not simply the fabric of the banner.

6. Garden ornament - Wikipedia

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   Windmill: a disconnected but free-spinning miniature, typically in the American Aermotor style having about a dozen metal vanes, or the traditional Dutch style having four wood vanes. Yard globe: a light-reflective sphere, as large as 12" in diameter or more and generally displayed on top of a support structure. Also called gazing globes or ...

7. Pinnacle - Wikipedia

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   Those of the last-named period are much richer, and are generally decorated with crockets and finials, and sometimes with ball flowers. Very fine groups are found at Beverley Minster and at the rise of the spire of St Mary's, Oxford. Perpendicular pinnacles differ but little from Decorated, except that the crockets and finials are of later ...