[34] Design for a ceiling for the oval ante room, c1773, possibly executed

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    - Ashburnham House, 19 Dover Street, London, for John, 2nd Earl of Ashburnham, c1773-76 (47)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 12/129

Purpose

[34] Design for a ceiling for the oval ante room, c1773, possibly executed

Aspect

Plan of an oval ceiling with a central oval figurative compartment surrounded by rope moulding, with an oval band of foil, anthemia and calyx. Beyond this there are festoons of beading flanked by calyx supporting anthemia, all set within an oval band of calyx segmented by lozenges and cameos, alternating with pedestals flanked by winged griffins and supporting urns bearing anthemia. The cameos and urns are linked with swags. All this is enclosed within an oval band of arabesques, rosettes and calyx, and this is segmented by tablets ornamented with rosettes flanked by swags

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling of the Anti room at Ashburnham House. / 129.

Signed and dated

c1773
c1773

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including violet, pink, Indian yellow and Indian red on laid paper (404 x 283)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Giuseppe Manocchi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 36
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 298, pl. 418
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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