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[2] Design for an overmantel mirror frame for the front drawing room, c1789
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 3/14
Purpose
[2] Design for an overmantel mirror frame for the front drawing room, c1789
Aspect
Elevation of an overmantel mirror frame with stiles formed with paired Ionic pilasters, ornamented with bands of anthemia. At the base of the stiles there are three-branch candelabra, with bases formed with fans, surmounted by urns ornamented with lion masks and a band of fluting, and supporting anthemia and tubular flowers. Above this there are bands of anthemia, enclosed within lozenges, and this has an apron of peltoid shields, which suspend drop calyx, festoons of beading and rosettes within roundels. The capitals contain urns flanked by winged griffins, and the frieze contains a central figurative tablet. The mirror frame is surmounted by a central urn, ornamented with anthemia and fluting, and this is flanked by recumbent, winged sphinxes, and further urns
Scale
bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot
Inscribed
Design of a Glass frame over the Chimney Piece in the front Drawing room at The Lord Chief Barons in Great George Street and some dimensions given
Signed and dated
- c1789
c1789
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and coloured washes including cerulean blue, Indian yellow and pink on laid paper (309 x 521)
Hand
Possibly
Office hand
Office hand
Watermark
JWAHTMAN
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 37
Harris, 1963, p. 55
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1963, p. 55
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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