Ceiling decoration
Unknown
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
circa 1745 - circa 1760
Materials
Plaster
Measurements
592 mm (Width) x 0 mm (Depth); 7250 mm (Length)
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 873032
Summary
Ceiling. Moulded and carved frame of geometric shape outside at each corner four floral devices with ribbons and inside containg figures and symbols on the theme of music with four cupids playing musical instruments with exotic birds.
Provenance
Acquired during the remodeling of Saltram House in the mid eighteenth century.By descent to Edmund Robert Parker (1877-1951) 4th Earl of Morley.Accepted in part payment of death duties by HM Treasury and transferrred to NT in 1957.
Makers and roles
Unknown, designer