[26] Preliminary design for a candle stand for the great drawing room (now the portico room) c1778, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Apsley House, Piccadilly, London: plans, elevations, section and designs for the interior, and an elevation for the gatehouse, for the 2nd Earl Bathurst, 1771-1779 (56)
      - Preliminary design for a candle stand and design for a candle stand and pier glass frame for the great drawing room (now the portico room), c1778 (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 6/52

Purpose

[26] Preliminary design for a candle stand for the great drawing room (now the portico room) c1778, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a candle stand supported by a tripod base with paw feet, ornamented with figurative medallions and ram masks. The tripod is surmounted by a further base, ornamented with rosettes and festoons, which bears a part-fluted, turned support ornamented with acanthus leaves. All of this is surmounted by winged griffins supporting an urn flanked by candle branches

Scale

bar scale of 1 ½ inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Stands for Candles at Lady Bathurst’s on [_____] Side of the Tables / 4 feet

Signed and dated

c1778

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (171 x 224)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Watermark

Britannia within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II Index p. 44
Harris, 1963, p. 57
Lea, 2005, p.11
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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