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[22] Preliminary design for a chimneypiece for the eating room, c1777, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 23/220b
Purpose
[22] Preliminary design for a chimneypiece for the eating room, c1777, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of a chimneypiece with Doric pilaster stiles with pedestal bases containing paterae, bands of guilloche, and bands of laurel leaf tips. The bases are surmounted by tripods with hoof feet and sabre legs, and they are ornamented with rosettes, calyx, peltoid shields, cameos, and festoons. The tripods have ram mask capitals and are surmounted by urns flanked by swags which suspend rosettes. The capitals of the chimneypiece contain medallions set within wreaths, and the frieze contains a central urn ornamented with gadrooning, enclosed anthemia, and the urn is flanked by winged sphinxes, arabesques, rosettes, and half putti
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
Eating room Chimney Roxburghe House (pencil) and some dimensions given
Signed and dated
- c1777
c1777
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (309 x 474)
Hand
Probably
Robert Adam
Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 40
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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