[37] Design for a mirror frame for the drawing room, 1772, possibly executed

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  - Luton Park, designs for a house and interiors including an organ case for John Crichton Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, c1763-72 (56)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/114

Purpose

[37] Design for a mirror frame for the drawing room, 1772, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a tripartite mirror frame, with tapering term pilasters ornamented with bands of calyx. The mirror frame has a socle base ornamented with fluting, and there is a central panel ornamented with rosettes and arabesques. This is surmounted by a lion mask and further arabesques which support a tubular flower bearing an urn ornamented with anthemia and a band of guilloche. This is flanked by reclining draped figures bearing festoons, and beyond this there are three branch candelabra. The mirror frame compartments have a frieze of enclosed calyx and anthemia, and the central compartment is supported by urns ornamented with gadrooning and ram masks. The mirror frame is surmounted by a figurative oval bearing an anthemion and this is flanked by winged griffin and winged sphinxes, and there is an apron of anthemia and festoons of husks

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Glass frame for the Drawing room at Luton House / 114

Signed and dated

September 1772
Adelphi / 27.t Sep.r 1772

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil within a single ruled border on laid paper (437 x 558)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Verso

(pencil) Burnished Gold - £96 - 8 / Japann'd - £90 - / oil Gold - 84 - 8 / Japann'd in oyl gold - 80 - 10

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume I, p. 69; Volume II, Index, p. 21
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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