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  • image SM Adam volume 25/125

Reference number

SM Adam volume 25/125

Purpose

[91] Design for a candelabrum, 1773, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a candelabrum with a socle base ornamented with beading, arabesques, and rosettes. The base supports an eagle set within a shell flanked by winged sphinxes. Above this there are bands of guilloche flanking a rosette roundel, and an anthemion supporting a tubular flower bearing an urn. The urn is ornamented with enclosed acanthus leaves, bands of guilloche enclosing rosettes, a half putto flanked by arabesques, and bands of beading. The flared lid of the urn is ornamented with bands of guilloche, fluting, and reed and ribbon, and is surmounted by a rosette and a pine cone. The urn is flanked by fluted sabre legs which terminate in ram masks. The ram masks support candle branches embellished with foliage, which terminate in candle holders in the form of tubular flowers

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Candlestick for Sir Watkin Wynn Bart. / 47

Signed and dated

  • January 1773
    Adelphi / 18.t Janry 1773

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (460 x 448)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 50
Fairclough, 1995, pp. 376-386
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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