Chinese Diapers

The Grammar of Ornament
Plate LXIX
Chinese Nº 1, Pattern 23





Not an exact match, but somewhere close. The Monserrate diaper has more naturalistic (vegetable) detail.

Egeria's Font : Antonio Passaporte

Legenda: Palacete de Monserrate, interior
Nível de descrição : Documento simples - Fotografia
Dimensão: 10x15cm
Suporte: Negativo de gelatina e prata em vidro
Nome do produtor : Passaporte, António, 1901-1983

Indian Room : Antonio Passaporte

Legenda : Palacete de Monserrate, sala
Nível de descrição : Documento simples - Fotografia
Dimensão : 10x15cm
Suporte: Negativo de gelatina e prata em vidro
Nome do produtor : Passaporte, António, 1901-1983

A view from the same angle - taken from an old postcard

Monserrate Music Room c. 1953

Legenda: Palacete de Monserrate, salão
Data(s): [c. 1953]
Nível de descrição : Documento simples - Fotografia
Dimensão: 10x15cm
Suporte: Negativo de gelatina e prata em vidro
Nome do produtor : Passaporte, António, 1901-1983

For comparison the same room in 1929

The Kitchens

Chapel

The saint returns to dwell,

Where Vathek once was lord !

There were a number of works of art displayed within the chapel. A large picture representing Christ and the miracle of the loaves and fishes was placed on the wall opposite the door. The stencilled wall decoration still exists today.

Central Dome

Oberon ! behold high overhead,
The glorious dome in air outspread,
Poised o'er Egeria's fountain !


All the concave's fretted bound,
Attempered into harmony,
By faintest bloom of roseate light,
Slow spreading from that Dome on high,
Artful, scarcely visible canopy,
Suffusing all its sculpture bright,
Like blush that dawns on Beauty's cheek,
Its source, its power, 't were vain to seek!

Still apparent in this old photograph from the nineteen-eighties, the red canopy stretched behind the frame. The strong southern sunlight filtered through this cloth as roseate light; the effect must have been bewitching. The "thorny fretwork" (Ruskin - Stones of Venice) of the frame is styled in the same manner as appears in the tympanum of the gothic arches below.