[1] Design for a commode and pier glass frame, 1767

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Combe Bank, Sevenoaks, Kent: unexecuted designs for alterations to the house, executed designs for the interior, and an unexecuted design for a bridge for Lord Frederick Campbell, 1767-77, (8)
    - Design for a commode and pier glass frame, 1767 (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/31

Purpose

[1] Design for a commode and pier glass frame, 1767

Aspect

Elevation of a commode, ornamented with circular and rectangular panels containing rosettes and calyx, guilloche, beading, fluting, enclosed rosettes, and Vitruvian scroll, surmounted by a pier glass frame ornamented with fluting, laurel leaves, calyx, arabesques, enclosed rosettes, festoons, and an urn, and surmounted by arabesques, acanthus leaves, calyx, rosettes, and a medallion containing putti, and with pencil-drawn annotations

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

For Lord Frederick Campbell and measurements given

Signed and dated

1767
1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (292 x 453)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 7
Harris, 1963, pp. 48, 78
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

No level

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