[15] Record drawing for a mirror frame and commode for the drawing room, 1781, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Cullen House, Moray: designs for the interior decoration of Cullen House and an entrance screen for James Ogilvy, 6th Earl of Findlater and 3rd Earl of Seafield, and designs for a chimney piece and furniture for the drawing room at Cullen House, along with a tea pavilion, town house or gardener’s house, and a gated lodge for James Ogilvy, 7th Earl of Findlater and 4th Earl of Seafield, 1767-83, executed in part (26)
    - Preliminary drawings and designs for mirror frames, a commode and a chimneypiece in the drawing room for the 7th Earl of Findlater, 1781, unexecuted (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/225

Purpose

[15] Record drawing for a mirror frame and commode for the drawing room, 1781, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a commode with tapered legs and a fluted frieze, surmounted by a glass frame separated into two compartments. The lower compartment is adorned with a central candelabrum with half of a patera, flanked by rams heads holding festoons of husks, and framed by a glass border of calyx drops on the sides, enclosed anthemion across the top and enclosed rosettes in the corners. The upper compartment contains a central vase, and has a border of enclosed anthemion flanked by terms, with a band of festoons and rosettes across the top followed by a frieze of broadleaf and cusps of enclosed anthemion

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Glass frame & Commode for the Piers in the / Drawing room : for the Earl of Findlater / Glass / Glass / Glass / 225

Signed and dated

2/6/1781
Adelphi / 2^nd June 1781

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (239x450)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Watermark

J KOOL surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 8
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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