[13] Design for a pier glass and table for the dining room, 1778, possibly executed

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  - Wormleybury, Hertfordshire, executed designs for interiors and furniture, and designs for garden buildings, for Sir Abraham Hume, 1777-80 (24)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/200

Purpose

[13] Design for a pier glass and table for the dining room, 1778, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a pier glass frame and table. The table has tapering, fluted legs, with block feet, capitals ornamented with masks, a frieze of festoons and ribbons, and a slab bordered with guilloche. The table is surmounted by a tripartite mirror, with tapering herm stiles ornamented with drop calyx, and this is surmounted by a band of enclosed anthemia. The central section of the frame is surmounted by dolphins supporting an urn bearing an anthemion, and flanked by further smaller urns

Scale

bar scale of 1½ inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Glass and Table frame for the Pier in the Eating room at Wormleybury

Signed and dated

March 1778
28. March 1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Indian yellow and cerulean blue on laid paper (298 x 447)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Watermark

GR surmounted by a fleur-de-lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 31
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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