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The following are the more noteworthy details. The right interior 

 wall of the yellow building of the first story has a vertical white line 

 near the left edge. At the top of the wide green stripe, which forms 

 the back wall, there is a molding. The right wall of the building on the 

 left is violet colored, except for a dark line near the left edge. The 

 ceiling-strips are bluish gray, the inter-spaces are violet. The interior 

 architrave is greenish drab; the lines which indicate the divisions of 

 the surface are bluish gray. The exterior architrave is greenish gray 

 with division lines of chrome green. The boucrania are slightly and 

 poorly sketched. A well preserved garland is suspended from a sort 

 of jar l with U-shaped bent handles, extending upward from the lip, and 

 a horizontal handle, projecting from the side near the lip, under the 

 large upper handle. The vase is of a reddish brown color, but the lip 

 and the two rings just beneath it are painted white to indicate light 

 falling on raised surfaces. The round part of the garland does not form 

 a complete ring, but an end is suspended from each of the upright 

 handles of the vase. The perpendicular part seems to be hung from 

 near the bottom of the vase, but the precise manner of attachment 

 is not clear. 



The panel was evidently placed on the right of the principal picture. 

 Owing to the differences in the coloring, noted above, it is improbable 

 that it served as a companion piece to No. 24651. Whether it belonged 

 to another room, or to another wall of the same room, would be difficult 

 to determine. 



Height, m. 1.388 (=4 ft. 6.64 in.). Width, m. 0.475 ( = 1 ft. 6.7 in.). 



In the dado the green paint was applied after the red; in the rosette-panel the 

 red was put on after the green, that is, the interior was in both cases painted before 

 the border. 



A point in which all four of the frescoes with dado agree is the presence of a narrow 

 black stripe along the upper edge of the upper green border of that part, though 

 here it is partly painted over with green. The stripe may be taken as indicating 

 that the top of the border lying just beneath the projecting yellow (wooden) cornice 

 is in shadow. 



FRESCO. 24653. [Plate CXXIL] 



Decorative compartment with border and top-piece, detached from 

 a white ground. 



The principal design figures a sort of deer in the attitude of ascending 

 a very steep declivity, while the head is turned so that the creature's 

 gaze is directed backwards. Just what animal is represented, is not 

 clear; perhaps the chamois was in the mind of the decorator, although 

 the horns should in that case turn backward. The color basis is a 



1 Similar in shape to the vase of the preceding No. 24656, but with different handles. 



