[31] Design for a pier glass and table for the first library, c1779, unexecuted

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    - Roxburghe House, Hanover Square, London, designs for a house and interiors for John Ker, 3rd Duke of Roxburghe, c1775-79 (55)
      - Designs for a pier glass and table for the first library, c1779 (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/215

Purpose

[31] Design for a pier glass and table for the first library, c1779, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a pier table with socle feet and fluted legs, with rosettes ornamenting the spandrels set in between the legs, and the capitals containing paterae. The frieze is ornamented with festoons of husks. Above this there is an elevation of a semi-circular-headed pier glass frame bordered with a moulded band. Surmounting the frame there is a tripod ornamented with ram masks and supporting a globe. The tripod is flanked by winged putti and festoons of husks

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Glass & Table for the Pier in the first Library room at Roxburghe House / not executed / 215

Signed and dated

c1779
c1779 (cropped)

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Indian yellow and cerulean blue on laid paper (298 x 446)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Watermark

J KOOL surmounted by a fleur-de-lis set within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 40
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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