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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

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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