[98] Preliminary design for a tripod and candelabrum, 1777, possibly executed

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    - St James's Square, number 20, London, designs for a house and interiors for Watkin Williams-Wynn, c1772-1777 (99)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 6/53

Purpose

[98] Preliminary design for a tripod and candelabrum, 1777, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a tripod with paw feet, fluted legs, and a stretcher ornamented with Vitruvian scroll which supports an urn. The tripod has ram mask capitals, a frieze ornamented with anthemia enclosed within semi-circular-headed bands, and an apron of festoons. The tripod supports a candelabrum, with an urn shaped base ornamented with gadrooning, and above this there is a turned support flanked by sabre legs. All this is surmounted by an urn ornamented with lion masks(?), Vitruvian scroll and rosettes, and the urn supports a pair of candle branches

Scale

bar scale of 1 ½ inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Sketch of a Stand for Candles for Sir W. W. Wynne Bart

Signed and dated

April 1777
Adelphi 26 April. 1777.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (199 x 321)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 50
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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Drawing

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