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[23] Design for an overmantel mirror frame for the back drawing room, c.1770-71, executed status unknown
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 24/172
Purpose
[23] Design for an overmantel mirror frame for the back drawing room, c.1770-71, executed status unknown
Aspect
Elevation of an overmantel mirror frame comprising pilasters decorated with guilloche, and fluted capitals surmounted by urns, with a frieze containing anthemion and calyx pairs above a band of lozenges, and a large urn flanked by reclining figures above the mantel
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Lord Chief Baron Ord’s back Drawing Room
Signed and dated
- 1770-71
datable to 1770-71
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (262x398)
Hand
possibly
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi
Watermark
Portal & Bridges
Literature
Bolton, 1922, p. 12
Brune, 1991, pp. 475-482
Further literature references in scheme notes
Brune, 1991, pp. 475-482
Further literature references in scheme notes
Level
Drawing
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