Distinct ornamentation in the decorative canon of Ionic architecture, in modern architectural terminology also known as the ‘Ionian kymation’: a profiled ledge with an arched cross section whose relief or painted ornamentation consisted of an alternation of oval leaves and lancet-shaped spandrel tips and which often concludes at the lower end with pearl staff (astragal) corresponding to the rhythm of the egg-and-dart moulding. Apart from decorating the epistylion or the frieze, egg-and-dart-moulding was particularly used to decorate the echinus of the …