[30] Design for a mirror frame for the buffet room, 1782, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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    - Designs, finished drawings and record drawings for the interior of Culzean castle, 1778-82, as executed (34)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/231

Purpose

[30] Design for a mirror frame for the buffet room, 1782, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of an overmantel mirror frame comprising a central compartment adorned with terms holding a festoon of husks linking to a central, oval medallion with an earl’s coronet. The outer compartments are adorned with palmette on calyx with patera above, with enclosed rosettes, and a fluted frieze across the top surmounted by urns at each end and a large urn on a pedestal flanked by griffons in the centre

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Glass frame over Chimney in the Buffet room at Cullean / 231 with some dimensions

Signed and dated

3/1782
Adelphi / March 1782

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured wash including Naples yellow and cerulean on laid paper (251x389)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 9
Harris, 2001, pp. 327, 332
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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