egg and dart

The neckings are worked with the capitals, and enriched by 'egg-and-dart' pointing upwards.

It is quite possible that the egg-and-dart pattern may have had a multiple origin.

An egg-and-dart molding extended all around the casing, where the inner door had once hung.

Many ornamental motives, like the zigzag and the egg-and-dart, for example, had originally a symbolic value.