Traquair House, North garden pavilion, detail of painted ceiling. Digital image of D 59911 CN.

Description Traquair House, North garden pavilion, detail of painted ceiling. Digital image of D 59911 CN.

Date 11/10/1999

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

Catalogue Number SC 760070

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 59911 CN

Scope and Content Painted ceiling in north garden pavilion, Traquair House, Scottish Borders This shows part of the painted ceiling boards in the north pavilion. The painting shows a female figure beside a pool (possibly Venus) with two doves in her hand being discovered by a man in red Classical-style robes with a hunting dog and a spear. Putti (small cherubs) stand by the pool and fly down from the sky with a golden cloth to cover the goddess. The exterior of the pavilions feature harled walls and have wide sandstone margins around the door and at the wall-head. The ogee (double-curved) slated roofs are surmounted by ball finials. The pavilions would have been used for entertaining guests and for serving tea in. Traquair is the oldest continually inhabited house in Scotland, with its origins in the 10th century. It was the site of a royal hunting lodge in the 1200s, but the house as seen today is based around a c.1512 tower-house with many later additions. The flanking service wings were built in 1695 to designs by architect James Smith (c.1645-1731), who also designed the wrought-iron screens round the courtyard in 1698. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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