rstate apartments, to make niches or arched recesses oneach side ; and in lodging rooms, presses, or closets, eithercovered with the paper, or finished in any manner suitedto the rest of the room. By these means, the cornice orentablature of the room may be carried round withoutbreaks, the ceiling…
Decoration and ornament · Architecture
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![An illustration from The gentlemens or builders companion : containing variety of usefull designs for doors, gateways, peers, pavilions, temples, chimney-pieces, slab tables, pier glasses, or tabernacle frames, ceiling peices [sic] &c. (1739)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-gentlemensorbuil00jone-84-51.webp)
