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

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