In the former, an overbearing clothes press (1764-66) designed by Robert Adam with exquisite carvings by Sefferin Alken dominates one end, while the three-dimensional vigour of Grinling Gibbons' carving is exemplified by some
overdoor decorations (c.
An
overdoor hanger creates extra space for towels - and a laundry bag sewn from spare fabric - without having to drill holes.
This is also suggested by the fact that in Symonds's 1652 list, Van Dyck's oblong format half-length portrait of Northumberland as Lord High Admiral, with an anchor (Collection of the Duke of Northumberland, Alnwick Castle)--clearly intended as an
overdoor or overmantel (16)--is placed between the two Van Dyck group portraits now at Petworth (Northumberland and his family [no.
(44) This can be seen, for example, in the set of
overdoors in the Kaisersaal.
In 1753-54, for example, Carle van Loo painted two
overdoors for the bedchamber of Madame de Pompadour at the chateau de Bellevue in which his client is shown arrayed as a sultana.
Opposite Falconet's statue, two
overdoors attributed to Francois Boucher represent Cupid reformed for the time being and practising the arts of writing verse and painting pictures.
Since she is painted frontally, Nattier does not render her high-arched nose, although that feature is prominent in Vanloo's portraits of her as three sultanas, two of them conversing over their needlework (Hermitage Museum), painted in 1752 as
overdoors for the Turkish Bedroom of her Chateau de Bellevue.
Two Lely portraits, which were originally placed as
overdoors on this wall, have generously been lent from Newport, Rhode Island, and New York.
They also wasted his time and talent by commissioning, for
overdoors and other decorations, so-called allegories similar to Largilli[greave{e}]re's All[acute{e}]gorie de la Musique, with which he had dignified but not e nhanced still-life.
These were developed by Carlos IV, who continued to employ his father's court artist, Anton Raphael Mengs, whose beautiful Dawn and Dusk
overdoors in the exhibition, reveal the influence of Boucher.
Because they were resistant to weathering, many Della Robbia reliefs can still be found as sculpture inserted into an architectural context, such as
overdoors, represented here by a particularly fine lunette of St Brigid of Sweden flanked by two confraternity members (Fig.
The paintings had been inserted into the wainscot, the landscapes as
overdoors and the View of Rubens's House as an overmantel.
