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[13] Design for the ceiling for the ante room, 1761, executed with minor alterations
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 11/17
Purpose
[13] Design for the ceiling for the ante room, 1761, executed with minor alterations
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular compartmental ceiling with four pilasters on each wall, with a central octagonal compartment containing a patera and bows supporting festoons, encircled by four octagonal compartments containing rosettes encircled by enclosed fans of fluting, and these octagons alternate with four rectangular compartments cotaining an anthemion flanked by sphinxes. There is an additional border on one end of three compartments containing anthemia, and fan roundels
Scale
bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Cieling for the Vestibule at Sion / as executed (in pencil in the hand of Arthur Bolton)
Signed and dated
- 1761
Decr 1761
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (447 x 592)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly 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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