SM Adam volume 12/82

[3] Design for a ceiling for the gallery or library, 1771, unexecuted

Plan of a rectangular, tripartite ceiling, divided by rosettes enclosed within squares, and rectangular panels containing masks connected by vines, and with a canted bow on one of the short sides, ornamented with arabesques and a tazza within a frame of fret. The central flat has a central circular compartment, containing a rosette, enclosed within a circular frame, encircled by anthemia enclosed within triangles, rosettes, and enclosed segmental paterae, all set within a shaped octagonal frame, with an apron of festoons, peltoid shields, and vesica-shaped medallions, all within a circular frame of Vitruvian scroll, and framed by four small triangular compartments containing masks supported by arabesques. This central compartment is flanked by octagonal compartments, each with a central patera, enclosed within a circular fluted frame, encircled by anthemia, a shaped octagonal frame with an apron of festoons, and enclosed rosettes within each festoon, and with arabesques between the festoons, and these octagonal compartments are each framed by four triangular compartments containing arrangements of acanthus leaves and calyx