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[14] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the second drawing room, 1773; it is not known if this design was executed

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central patera, enclosed within a fan ornamented with anthemia, and a shaped octagonal frame, with a rectangular figurative panel on four sides, flanked by drops of calyx, and alternating with segmental compartments containing segmental rosettes, enclosed within fans ornamented with calyx and rosettes, and the whole is set within a large lozenge-shaped frame of foliage, with an oval medallion supported by a swag at each end, and with an apron of festoons, anthemia and enclosed rosettes on each side, and the whole is set within a circular frame of guilloche, beyond which are triangular compartments in each corner, containing cameos, enclosed within wreaths, and flanked by arabesques, and the whole is flanked by rectangular compartments containing a repeating pattern of rosettes enclosed within fans and circular frames, flanked by anthemia, and an x-shaped arrangement of bell flowers, terminating in a rosette flanked by anthemia, and the ceiling has a rectangular border of reed and ribbon