[72] Design for a ceiling for the circular bedchamber, 1773, as executed

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    - St James's Square, number 20, London, designs for a house and interiors for Watkin Williams-Wynn, c1772-1777 (99)
      - Designs for a ceiling for the circular bedroom, 1773 (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 12/58

Purpose

[72] Design for a ceiling for the circular bedchamber, 1773, as executed

Aspect

Above- Section through a domed circular room. The spandrels are ornamented with masks, semi-circular-headed bands, and circular medallions depicting putti which bear festoons. There is a frieze of arabesques and anthemia, and above this the ceiling is ornamented with a band of rosettes, and a band of inverted festoons of calyx which support tubular flowers Below- Plan of a circular ceiling ornamented with a central rosette set within a band of foil and surrounded by a circular fan ornamented with calyx. Beyond this there is a circular band of arabesques and rosettes, a band of fluting and rosettes, and a band of inverted calyx festoons which support tubular flowers. The spandrels of the ceiling are ornamented with roundels containing putti bearing festoons, and semi-circular-headed bands

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the Bed Chamber at Sir Watkin Wynn’s in S.t James’s Square / 58

Signed and dated

1773
1773.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (441 x 595)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Giuseppe Manocchi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 49
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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