Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic (1922)
Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955, New York. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Committee on Education · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 281
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… … 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 muses.Flaxman had modelled these for Wedgwood…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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