In the medallion (75 cm in diameter) there is a flower-leaf ornament. The geometrical pattern of the ornament is built of circular arcs of the medallion diameter with the foci on its circumference dividing it into twelve equal parts. Between the centre of the medallion and its circumference are eight fan-shaped “leaves” with one long and the other short sides and a wavy edge orientated in an anticlockwise direction. The leaves are painted yellow (ochre) and green (glauconite) in pairs opposite each other with darker bases. In the segments between the pairs of the “leaves” there is an unpainted white ground. Some traces of the medallion wide border (3.5 cm) between two thin ones and white (the white chalk ground) in between remain. In the centre of the medallion and on its circumference there are traces of the leg of a compass. Light green cloth folds are painted over the ornament. Condition: thin cracks all over the medallion are partially strengthened; complete loss of pigments on the elements between the pairs of the “leaves” and the background; considerable loss of the cloth folds. Conservation: 2004, restorer E.M.Christie.
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