Design for a ceiling, Robert de Cotte, 1656 – 1735, Pen and black ink, graphite, white heightening on blue paper, Two alternative designs are suggested for the cove: including festoons, scrolls, female masks, festoons, and gaines. For the center: including flower vases on brackets with doves and a spike design with vegetable motifs and shells. The ceiling is divided by bands into the central, circular and four pentagonal coffers. Three alternative suggestions are made for the letters. Two of them show bracket motifs and putti. One is decorated with an acanthus scroll

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