[13] Preliminary design for a pier glass frame for the eating room, 1767, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Osterley Park, Hounslow, Greater London: designs for the house, interior and park for Francis Child and Robert Child, 1761-80 (126)
    - Interior decoration
      - Preliminary design for a pier glass frame for the eating room, 1767, as executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/33

Purpose

[13] Preliminary design for a pier glass frame for the eating room, 1767, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of an oval pier glass frame, ornamented with fluting, acanthus leaves, drops of calyx, and festoons, with an apron of acanthus leaves, a rosette, and a fan, and surmounted by acanthus leaves, rosettes, anthemia, a tubular flower, a wreath, festoons, and hung from a lion mask

Scale

bar scale of 1 2/5 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

For the Eating room at Osterly

Signed and dated

1767
1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (293 x 456)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam or William Hamilton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
Harris, 1963, p. 51
Tomlin, 1972, p. 26
Harris, 2001, pp. 161, 351
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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