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Hubba, hubba: molded decorative brickwork. This fireplace detail, from a 1910 Craftsman home in Harvard Heights, features an egg-and-dart molding, a widely used pattern of classical origins. The egg-and-dart pattern enriches an ovolo molding or quarter round, a simple convex shape, applied here to a niche or recess, over the firebox. These glazed bricks, a beautiful orange-brown color are freckled with round to irregular shaped brown to black iron spots (some with blister holes).