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Headpiece

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Headpiece 

a small ornamental or representational (sometimes suggesting a plot) composition (the width of the type page or narrower) that separates and decorates the beginning of a section of a handwritten or printed book or magazine. The headpiece can include the title of the section.
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When Sancho heard him call the basin a headpiece he was unable to restrain his laughter, but remembering his master's wrath he checked himself in the midst of it.
Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context
So stern was the energy of his aspect, that the whole man, visage, frame, and soul, seemed wrought of iron, gifted with life and thought, yet all of one substance with his headpiece and breastplate.
From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
Unutterable relief instantly filled them as they fell upon the mystic jewel which sparkled in the centre of my stolen headpiece.
The Gods of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
 
 
 
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