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[31] Design for an overmantel mirror frame for the second drawing room, 1775, possibly executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 20/143
Purpose
[31] Design for an overmantel mirror frame for the second drawing room, 1775, possibly executed
Aspect
Elevation of an overmantel mirror frame ornamented with a band of reed and ribbon, a band of anthemia alternating with calyx, a band of beading, and a moulded band. The frame is surmounted by a socle base ornamented with a paterae, ram masks, and a band of Vitruvian scroll. The base supports and urn ornamented with gadrooning and bearing an anthemion. The urn supports festoons which link to flanking winged griffins with tails forming arabesques
Scale
bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot
Inscribed
Glass frame over Chimney Piece in second Drawing Room at Ashburnham House. / 143
Signed and dated
- November 1775
Adelphi / Nov.r 29.t 1775.
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Indian yellow and cerulean blue on laid paper (375 x 537)
Hand
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi
Literature
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 298
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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