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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

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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