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Blocks.
Two portions of the ornaments of fire-places, placed above each column, the frieze being on either side, and the chief piece, the tablet, in the centre. The more ordinary chimney-pieces had only a tablet and blocks. The bas-reliefs inserted in the columns were called panels, and occasionally the base of the columns had blocks also. See « Life of Wedgwood," vol. iL p. 373.