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Ogee
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Ogee arch also known as Venetian arch and cyma reversa

Architecture

Ogee / Venetian arch / cyma reversa: A molding formed by two curves, the upper concave and the lower convex, so forming an S-shaped curve.

Cyma reversa/Lesbian cyma:  A molding of double curvature which is  convex at the outer edge and concave at the inner edge.

Ogee arch: An arch consisting of two opposed ogee curves meeting in a point at the top. Introduced c. 1300, it was popular throughout the late Middle Ages and in England especially in the early fourteenth century. Now associated with Venetian Gothic style

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Furniture

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Ogee molding: A molding made up of a convex and concave curve (S). Also called an ogive or keel molding.

An ogee is part of the crown molding that is frequently used at the top of a piece of case furniture

Ogee bracket foot

Ogee clock: rectangular, with ogee-profile molding that frames a central glass door that protects the clock face and the pendulum. The door usually carries a painted scene in the area beneath the face.

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Examples from Buffalo:

• Left illustration above: Hotel Touraine (Ogee arch)
  
  
• Miller Mansion (Ogee arch)
  
  
• Mount St. Joseph School (Ogee arch)
  
  
• Unitarian Universalist Church (Ogee arch)
  
  
• 800 West Ferry (Ogee arch)
  
  
• St. Joseph's RC Cathedral (Ogee arch)
  
  
• George A. Austin House
  
  
• Right illustration above: - Furniture: Queen Anne highboy crown molding with cyma recta and concave curves - Dana Tillou Fine Art
  
  
• Furniture: Chippendale slant top desk - Private collection, Buffalo, NY
  
  
• Furniture: Federal corner cupboard - Private collection, Buffalo, Examples
  
  
• Furniture: Corner cupboard ogee cornice - American Antique Furniture, Orchard Park, NY
  

• Dr. Ernest Wende House (Cyma recta/Doric cyma -  NOT an ogee)

Other examples:

• Cavetto, ovolo, cyma, and ogee molding illustration - Wikipedia
  
  
• Furniture: Ogee-bracketed foot with small scroll, Chippendale Federal chest-on-chest - Winterthur Museum
  
  
• Ringling House Museum,  Sarasota, FL
  
  
• Poultry Cross, Salisbury, England
  
  
• Segovia Cathedral, Spain
  
  
• Palau de Generalitat, Barcelona, Spain
  
  
• Koski Mehmed Pasha Mosque, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina