[46] Design for a ceiling for Lady Bute's dressing room, 1769, unexecuted

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  - Luton Park, designs for a house and interiors including an organ case for John Crichton Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, c1763-72 (56)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 12/22

Purpose

[46] Design for a ceiling for Lady Bute's dressing room, 1769, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of an apsidal ended ceiling, ornamented with a central rosette surrounded by enclosed anthemia and calyx set within a band of guilloche. Beyond this there is a lozenge with corner arabesques and rosettes, and the lozenge is surmounted by festoons of husks and rosettes crossed by thyrsi. All this is surrounded by rectangular compartments ornamented with rosettes set within lozenges, and with square corner compartments enclosing rosettes set within roundels, and bordered with bands of guilloche. The apsidal ends are ornamented with part-paterae enclosed within a band of guilloche and set within fans ornamented with arabesques and fluting. The fan is enclosed within a further band of guilloche, and beyond this there are festoons of husks

Scale

bar scale of 5 1/2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Cieling for Lady Bute's Dressing room. not executed / 22. / (and in pencil) 2 [_ _] [_ _ _ _] / Design of the Cieling of / Drawing Room -

Signed and dated

1769
1769.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (564 x 424)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Giuseppe Manocchi, William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 21
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 123
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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