Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . uch full-size details as wouldenable men unfamiliar with the style to carve the ornament successfully. Thecement stucco and plaster compositions developed by the Adams and others inLondon, however, were reproduced in moulds for application as needed, and the 255 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE wide diffusion of many elaborate motives, absolutely identical, shows that theseornaments were shipped to all parts of America. As one example among many, wemay cite the small baskets of fruit and flowers, of which identical exampl
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . uch full-size details as wouldenable men unfamiliar with the style to carve the ornament successfully. Thecement stucco and plaster compositions developed by the Adams and others inLondon, however, were reproduced in moulds for application as needed, and the 255 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE wide diffusion of many elaborate motives, absolutely identical, shows that theseornaments were shipped to all parts of America. As one example among many, wemay cite the small baskets of fruit and flowers, of which identical examples maybe found in Germantown and in the Barton Myers house in Norfolk. Such orna-ments were occasionally mentioned in inventories or offered for sale. Thus amongthe contents of the great house of Elias Hasket Derby, who died in 1799, is listed:One box Composition Ornaments broken sets $20;1 and, among the effects ofSamuel Mclntire, its designer and carver: A lot composition ornaments and Draws$35- With other property of Mclntire these ornaments were sold April 30, From a photograph by K. II. Holsingcr Figure 215. Wedgwood plaque from the dining-room mantel at Monticello Figure subjects from classical mythology were frequently used in mantels, onthe central panels and end blocks. Among the most popular were the had modelled these for Wedgwood after 1775 from the Apotheosis ofHomer relief in the British Museum and from the famous sarcophagus in theLouvre. A Wedgwood plaque (figure 215) with four figures from the latter: Urania,Terpsichore, Euterpe, and Polyhymnia, is the central ornament of the frieze in thedining-room mantel at Monticello, which has also oval medallions of muses at theends. Figures of single muses cast in composition were favorite ornaments forend blocks. For instance, a muse with a lyre (Terpsichore ?) is found in identicalform in mantels of Mclntires Jerathmeel Peirce3 and Felt houses in Salem, of Ver- 1 Essex Probate Records, vol. 372, p.
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