SM Adam volume 11/33

[3] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the drawing room, 1770, as executed

Plan of a rectangular tripartite ceiling, divided by bands of cable moulding, and with a border of enclosed rosettes, and paired enclosed anthemia. There is a central square compartment containing a central medallion encircled by a frame of enclosed rosettes, fans, and panels of urns flanked by rinceaux, set within an octagonal frame, with squares on four alternating sides containing rosettes, and lozenge-shaped medallions and alternating with festoons. Beyond this there are segmental compartments containing segmental figurative panels, encircled by bands of enclosed anthemia, and calyx crockets, and with a drop in each corner composed or urns, rinceaux, winged griffons, half-figures, anthemia, bell flowers, peltoid shields and calyx. The central square compartment is flanked by tripartite, rectangular compartments, with a central rectangular compartment containing an oval medallion, enclosed within a band of rosettes within figure-of-eight ribbons, and set within an oval frame, encircled by alternating festoons, and squares containing rosettes and lozenge-shaped cameos, and with a fan in each corner. The flanking compartments contain segmental figurative panels, encircled by bands of enclosed anthemia, and calyx crockets, and with an enclosed mask in each corner