[42] Designs for tripods and candelabra for the first drawing room, c1773, possibly executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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    - St James's Square, number 20, London, designs for a house and interiors for Watkin Williams-Wynn, c1772-1777 (99)
      - Unfinished design and designs for a table, tripods and candelabra for the first drawing room, c1773 (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/60

Purpose

[42] Designs for tripods and candelabra for the first drawing room, c1773, possibly executed

Aspect

Left- Elevation of a tripod with a base ornamented with a band of enclosed anthemia, winged sphinxes, and a band of fluting. The base supports a tripod with paw feet, which is ornamented with panels containing arabesques, rosettes, tubular flowers supporting draped figures, and festoons. The panels are separated by bands of vine leaf, and the pedestal has ram mask capitals. There is a frieze of acorns, and this is surmounted by a band of laurel leaf tips, and a;; this is surmounted by a further tripod, with feet in the form of acorns and sabre legs ornamented with drop calyx, which terminate in acanthus leaves. Set within the tripod there is an urn, which is ornamented with gadrooning, ram masks and a band of Vitruvian scroll, and it supports a central candle flanked by four candle branches. Right- Elevation of a tripod and urn as above

Scale

bar scale of 2 ¾ inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Tripod for the Drawing room at Sir W. Wynn’s in St James’s Square / 3 / 60 (pencil)

Signed and dated

August c1773
Adelphi / 24t August 177[-] (cropped) / (inscription cropped)

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (406 x 579)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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