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Reference number

SM Adam volume 3/94

Purpose

[2] Preliminary design for a pier glass frame for John Adam, c.1772, executed status unknown

Aspect

Same as SM Adam volume 3/15 and 26 with slight variation and additional detailing. There is a lion head in the top central wreath of the pier glass and the figures on the flanking tubular flowers are putti riding swans. The griffons in the lower half have been replaced with an arabesque and central candelabrum, with flanking urns on a raised platform
  • image SM Adam volume 3/94

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • c.1772
    datable to c.1772

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (250x428)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or William Hamilton

Watermark

VI

Level

Drawing

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