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[21] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the great drawing room, 1773, as executed

Plan of a rectangular, tripartite ceiling, divided by pilasters on the walls, and bands of miniature rosettes, and naturalistic anthemia, beyond which are rectangular areas divided into five compartments, with a central rectangle containing an enclosed patera, and four calyx, set within a lozenge, and with enclosed rosettes in each corner, and this is flanked by rectangular compartments containing winged sphinxes, supporting arabesques and a tablet of swags, surmounted by a vesica-shaped medallion, and above is a tablet containing an urn flanked by winged half-griffons, surmounted by arabesques, and with an apron of festoons supporting cameos and peltoid shields, and beyond there are further rectangular compartments containing enclosed rosettes within lozenges, as in the centre, and the central compartment of the ceiling is arranged as a groin vault, with a central medallion, enclosed within a circular frame of guilloche, encircled by four anthemia, and four enclosed urns, connected by a square frame of arabesques, and from each corner of this square is a drop of arabesques and anthemia, connecting to a square tablet in each corner, enclosed within a square frame of calyx, and between there there is a segmental compartment on each side, containing a segmental patera, enclosed within frames of feathers, beading, anthemia enclosed within scrolled hearts, and cable moulding, and the whole has a square border of connected enclosed miniature rosettes, beyond which is a compartmental border, divided into rectangles, containing oval medallions, rosettes enclosed within fans, and gridaille panels with urns supported by arabesques, and surmounted by anthemia and swags, and with a segmental patera in each corner, enclosed within a fan