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[12] Design for the ceiling for the ante room, 1761, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 11/15
Purpose
[12] Design for the ceiling for the ante room, 1761, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular compartmental ceiling with four pilasters on each wall, with a central octagonal compartment containing a patera and birds supporting festoons, encircled by four octagonal compartments containing rosettes encircled by strigils, alternating with four compartments containing an anthemion flanked by sphinxes. There is an additional border on one end of three compartments containing calyx within ovals
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Cieling for the Antichamber / at Sion
Signed and dated
- 1761
1761
Medium and dimensions
Pen and wash on laid paper (215 x 260)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam or Agostino Brunias
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 28.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes
Level
Drawing
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