[16] Unfinished design for a cabinet, 1768, unexecuted

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    - Berkeley Square, number 15 (later number 38), London: designs for interior decoration for Robert Child, 1768-76 (19)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/217

Purpose

[16] Unfinished design for a cabinet, 1768, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a tripartite cabinet, with four turned legs with ball feet, ornamented with acanthus leaves, fluting, spiral fluting, and calyx, and with a stretcher supporting urns; the upper register of the cabinet is articulated by Ionic pilasters and terms ornamented with drops of calyx. The shelves within the cabinet are ornamented with Vitruvian scroll, and one is enclosed by wire. The central portion of the tripartite cabinet is higher than those to either side, and each is surmounted with arabesques, and a combination of calyx, anthemia, tubular flowers, and urns

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Cabinet for Robert Child Esqr

Signed and dated

September 1768
Sepr 1768

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (292 x 405)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Harris, 1963, pp. 54, 73
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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