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[27] Alternative design for a ceiling for the saloon, 1769, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 12/19
Purpose
[27] Alternative design for a ceiling for the saloon, 1769, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan of a tripartite ceiling with an apse on one long side. The central compartment is ornamented with a roundel containing a patera bordered by rosettes and surrounded by calyx. The patera is bordered with a band of guilloche. All this is repeated in the flanking half-roundels, with paterae within octagonal and square compartments. The roundels are flanked by pedestals supporting turned balusters bearing urns ornamented with gadrooning and festoons of husks. The pedestals are flanked by winged griffins with tails forming arabesques. All this is set within a band of enclosed anthemia and a band of guilloche. The apse is ornamented with a part-patera, enclosed within a fan formed of fluting, calyx and scrolled hearts, and this is enclosed within a double band of guilloche
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Cieling for the Saloon at Luton not executed- / 19
Signed and dated
- 1769
1769 (pencil)
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (635 x 368)
Hand
Possibly
Office hand, possibly Giuseppe Manocchi, William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi
Office hand, possibly Giuseppe Manocchi, William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi
Watermark
IV surmounted by a fleur-de-lis within a crowned cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 21
King, 2001, Volume I, pp. 18, 122, 122 n.20
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume I, pp. 18, 122, 122 n.20
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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