Colonnette

A colonnette is a small slender column,[1] usually decorative, which supports a beam or lintel. Colonnettes have also been used to refer to a feature of furnishings such as a dressing table and case clock,[2][3] and even studied by archeologists in Roman ceramics.[4] Architectural colonnettes are typically found in "a group in a parapet, balustrade, or cluster pier".[5] The term columnette has also been used to refer to thin columns.[6] In Khmer art, the colonnette designates in particular the columns which frame the doors of the sanctuaries and which are one of the dating elements of their style.[7] Summits of complexity were attained in the development of the Khmer colonnette, according to Philippe Stern:[8]

There a few designs which present, as well as the khmer colonnette, a continuity of evolution, the persistence of a direction, which, though it may weaken at times, is taken up again each time.

— Philippe Stern
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  2. ^ Jane, Adlin (18 July 2018). Vanities: Art of the Dressing Table. Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 9781588395030. Retrieved 18 July 2018 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Museum, McKissick; Mckissick (1 September 1986). Carolina Folk: The Cradle of a Southern Tradition. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 9780872499508. Retrieved 18 July 2018 – via Google Books.
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  5. ^ "Definition of COLONNETTE". Merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
  6. ^ Okely, W. Sebastian (18 July 1860). Development by Christian architecture in Italy. p. 56. Retrieved 18 July 2018 – via Internet Archive. columnette definition.
  7. ^ Jacques, Claude; Freeman, Michael (2006). Angkor, cité khmère (in French). Editions Olizane. p. 232. ISBN 978-2-88086-347-0.
  8. ^ Naudou, Jean; Picron, Claudine; Stern, Philippe (1978). Au Service d'une biologie de l'art Tomes I et II: Recherches sur les arts de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud-Est (in French). Presses Univ. Septentrion. p. 168. ISBN 978-2-85939-081-5.