page_title: Colonette
hierarchical_section_title: Colonette
caption_attribution_description: English: Mahamandapa. Vitthala Temple, Vijayanagara This view of just one corner of the temple's pillared hall, with its piers cut out into clusters of numerous colonettes, illustrates why Vitthala Temple is considered the finest of the Vijayanagara series. Apparently the colonettes, when lightly tapped by a wooden stick, produce "musical" tones (Huntington, p.575), but the popular notion that these tones form part of a scale is deprecated by the Blue Guide (p.251).
context_page_description: A colonette is a small slender column, usually decorative, which supports a beam or lintel. Colonettes have been used as a feature of furnishings such as a dressing table and case clock. According to Webster's Dictionary, they are typically found in "a group in a parapet, balustrade, or cluster pier". The term columnette has also been used to refer to thin columns.
  Chartres Cathedral has a pilier cantonné with four colonettes attached to a large central core that support the arcade, aisle vaults and nave-vaulting responds.
  The -ette suffix, from French language, is a diminutive.
context_section_description: A colonette is a small slender column, usually decorative, which supports a beam or lintel. Colonettes have been used as a feature of furnishings such as a dressing table and case clock. According to Webster's Dictionary, they are typically found in "a group in a parapet, balustrade, or cluster pier". The term columnette has also been used to refer to thin columns.
  Chartres Cathedral has a pilier cantonné with four colonettes attached to a large central core that support the arcade, aisle vaults and nave-vaulting responds.
  The -ette suffix, from French language, is a diminutive.
caption: Pillars at a temple in India include colonettes
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