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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/116

Purpose

[39] Finished drawing for a mirror frame, table and tripods for the drawing room, 1772, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a table with turned feet and tapered fluted legs, with capitals containing rosettes and a frieze of enclosed rosettes and calyx. Above the frieze there is a band of laurel leaf tips, and the table has an apron of arabesques and anthemia. The table is flanked by socle ornamented with ram masks and swags, and supporting paw footed tripods. The tripods are ornamented with bands of guilloche and of rosettes, and with anthemia and lion masks. The tripods support five-branch candelabra, ornamented with ram masks and festoons. Above all this there is a tripartite mirror frame, with tapering term piers ornamented with bands of calyx. The base of the mirror frame is ornamented with bands of enclosed compartments, surmounted by part-paterae enclosed within fans. There is a central panel ornamented with arabesques and rosettes, and this is surmounted by a socle supporting an urn bearing festoons and flanked by winged griffins. The mirror frame has friezes of enclosed calyx and anthemia , and the central compartment is supported by urns ornamented with ram masks. The mirror is surmounted by a figurative cameo flanked by winged griffin and arabesques supporting reclining draped figures, and there is an apron of a lion mask with arabesques, and with a suspended peltoid shield and festoons of husks

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Glass & Tables frames & Tripods for the Drawing room at Luton / 116 (pencil) and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • October 1772
    Oct.r 1st 1772 / Adelphi / Oct.r 27.t 1772

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including cerulean blue and Indian yellow on laid paper (492 x 605)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Giuseppe Manocchi, William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

JWHATMAN

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume I, p. 69; Volume II, Index, pp. 21-22
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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