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  • image SM Adam volume 3/38

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 Mr J Adam . Edinbg / 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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