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

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - John Adam: preliminary designs and finished drawings for three pier glass frames, c.1772, executed status unknown (7)
    - Designs for a pier glass frame for John Adam, c. 1772, executed status unknown (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 3/38

Purpose

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

Aspect

Elevation of a tripartite pier glass frame articulated by terms supporting panels surmounted by griffons, with linking festoons that contain drops with enclosed rosettes and, in the centre, a peltoid shield. The terms sit on decorative entablatures surmounted by swans with linking festoons, which terminate in pedestals on a raised platform. Surmounting the frame ia roundelcontaining the Adam crest

Scale

to a rough scale

Inscribed

Pier Glass for M^r J Adam . Edinb^g / North

Signed and dated

c.1772
datable to c.1772

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (325x491)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or William Hamilton

Watermark

LVG surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 12
Harris, 1963, p.49
Brown, 1993, pp. 82-92
Further literary references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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