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Preliminary designs for a balloon-back armchair, a part-drawn elevation of a table and a rough elevation of a candlestick(?), ND
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 24/232
Purpose
Preliminary designs for a balloon-back armchair, a part-drawn elevation of a table and a rough elevation of a candlestick(?), ND
Aspect
Clockwise from upper right:
1) Part-drawn rough elevation of a table with two turned legs culminating in spade feet and one tapering leg culminating in a ball foot, which are connected by a stretcher. A frieze is ornamented by laurel leaf tips and egg-and-dart
2) Rough elevation of a candlestick with two nozzles, a turned, fluted shaft and a pedestal ornamented by patera and festoons
3) Rough elevation of a balloon-back armchair surmounted by a cresting of a palmette and sphinxes (?) and framed by a band of ribbon. Two arms culminate in knuckle handles and an ornamented shoe piece connects the chair seat and back. A seat rail ornamented by coin moulding enclosing rosettes is supported by tapering legs terminating in spade feet
Scale
not to scale
Signed and dated
- ND
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (472x294)
Hand
probably Adam, Robert (1728--1792), architect
Robert Adam
Robert Adam
Level
Drawing
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