Quattrefoil

An aesthete like myself complaining about ornament, sounding a bit like cranky Adolph Loos or some early modernist tea totaller? It's true. Another quattrefoil-esqe tracery employed as arbitrary "architectural enhancement," and I'm likely to duff up some fool.

Sure I love the four-lobed pattern divided by cusps, possibly originated in the ceramic revetments of Spanish and oriental mosques. Particularly when utilized in the Venetian Gothic, and the bizarro Mission Revival (see variation with multi-light window top). But just fashioned of foam and adhered to any old flat wall? Well, every man's got his limits.

"No, no, no," I screamed, at one apparent homeowner, post stucco applique, "it's a colonial revival cottage, not a flippin' would be Mediterranean."
I feel you law man, it's hard to keep order out here.

I don't know what's more offensive, 'Fried Chicken, Chinese Food & Donuts,' or that turd of an ornament, which is also a bit cartouche-like, an oval panel with crested or scrolled borders.

Clearly, this requires continuation......