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Reference number

SM Adam volume 23/108

Purpose

[5] Design for a chimney piece for the eating room, 1778, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a chimney piece comprising stiles adorned with urns, calyx, and cascading enclosed rosettes, terminating in urns on pedestals, with enclosed rosettes bound by a wreath and calyx batons in the capitals, and a frieze comprising three urns with festoons with enclosed rosette drops in between. There is a sketch elevation for an alternative stile comprising a tall pedestal adorned with a mask with festoons and cascading husks enclosing rosettes, surmounted by an urn and a fluted capital with egg and dart moulding and ram head masks

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the Eating room at Culean Castle / (in pencil) X Mrs [_ _ _ _ _ _]

Signed and dated

  • 1778
    1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (408x292)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Watermark

GR surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Notes

This chimneypiece was executed with the alternative stile decoration. It was relocated to the former library/study in the 1870s by Wardrop and Reid when the room was converted into a large dining room with the adjoining dressing room, and the eating room converted into a library.

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 9
Harris, 2001, pp. 329-330
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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