t takeshape and color. The wood-work—that is to say, the dado, doors,etc.—is painted Indian red, with black or light yellow edgings;above this the wall is covered by a green pattern, but the upperpart of this surface is divided by painting into panels two feetdeep by a foot and a half wide, the… … DRATVING-ROOM OF BELLETUE HOUSE. darker blue—the blue of the sky—also fills the painted panels,which thus resemble the openings for ventilation in some Orientalcountries. Across these openings a flight of vermilion birds—Virginian nightingales, plumed and winged by imagination, redbeing evidently…
South Kensington Museum · Decoration and ornament · Architecture
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