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[5] Design for a ceiling for the drawing room, 1769, possibly executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 12/11
Purpose
[5] Design for a ceiling for the drawing room, 1769, possibly executed
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular ceiling with a fireplace on one long side. The ceiling is ornamented with a central patera enclosed within a lozenge bordered with reed and ribbon, and this is crossed with an oval bordered by guilloche, and scroll work terminating in rosettes. The lozenge is ornamented with compartments enclosing acanthus leaves, and beyond all this there are rosette roundels and drop calyx surrounded by festoons. All this is surrounded by concave bands of calyx, segmented by lozenges enclosing rosettes, and linking tablets. The tablets are ornamented with rosettes and calyx enclosed within scrolled hearts, and are surmounted by arabesques, cameos depicting urns and sphinxes
Scale
bar scale of ½ inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Cieling for the Drawing room Parlor Story at Lord Kerry’s in Portman Square (underwritten in pencil) / Drawing Room Cieling Parlor Story Lord Kerry (pencil) / 11 and some dimensions given
Signed and dated
- 1769
1769
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including olive green, violet and pink within a single ruled border on laid paper (467 x 382)
Hand
Possibly
Office hand, possibly Giuseppe Manocchi
Office hand, possibly Giuseppe Manocchi
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 48
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 167
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 167
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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