[1] Finished drawing for a pier glass frame, 1783; it is not known if this design was executed

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  - John Kenrick: designs for mirror frames, 1783; it is not known if these designs were executed (4)
    - Finished drawings and office drawings for mirror frames, 1783; it is not known if these designs were executed (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/247

Purpose

[1] Finished drawing for a pier glass frame, 1783; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Elevation of a rectangular pier glass frame, with a fluted and beaded frame. Along the bottom rail is a tablet containing lozenges and an enclosed rosette, and with an apron of festoons and ram masks. The top rail is ornamented with a tablet containing three enclosed rosettes, and festoons, and the frame is surmounted by sphinxes with rinceaux tails flanking an oval medallion surmounted by an anthemion

Scale

bar scale of 1 ½ inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Glass frame for John Kenrick Esqr. / to suit the Glasses mark’d A

Signed and dated

1783
Adelphi and datable to 1783

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Indian yellow and sepia on laid paper (324 x 446)

Hand

Adam office hand, probably Robert Morison

Watermark

JKOOL surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 55
Harris, 1963, p. 47
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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