Urn (no.32 on plan), view from South West. Digital image of D 59596 CN.

Description Urn (no.32 on plan), view from South West. Digital image of D 59596 CN.

Date 1/4/1999

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 757571

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 59596 CN

Scope and Content Urn from south-west, Drummond Castle, Perth & Kinross This shows a large white marble urn on a plinth in the formal garden. It is richly carved with grotesque masks, supporting female figures, swags and a band of 'egg-and-dart' moulding around its upper edge. A carved stone 'flame' from the top of the vase indicates that the sculpture represents sacred love and charity. Classical statuary within gardens and inside the homes of the wealthy indicated that the host was educated and had taste and style. Young men on the 'Grand Tour' of Europe would bring back souvenirs of their travels in the form of statues, jewellery and sculpture in the Classical style. Drummond Castle was built c.1490, but the complex of buildings visible today consist of a gatehouse which was added in 1630-6 by architect John Mylne III (1611-67) and an L-plan mansion built for the 4th Earl of Perth in 1689. The mansion was extended in the 18th or early 19th century, and remodelled in Baronial style into its present form by architect G T Ewing in 1878 and 1900. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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