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Isaac Kremer/ January 14, 2018/ / 0 comments

An appendage to a supporting structure, as a shore, prop, or buttress; a decorative appendage of the base of a round column resting on a square or polygonal plinth, set at the corners, and taking the form of a grotesque, a tongue, or leafwork. Also called a griffe. Photo from Sage Chapel at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 2018. 2. A spere. (Harris, 1977)

Photo from Architectural Salvage Warehouse, Detroit, Michigan, 2005.

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