[51] Preliminary designs for clock encasements, c1778, not known to have been 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 designs and designs for clock encasements, c1778, not known to have been executed (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 25/230

Purpose

[51] Preliminary designs for clock encasements, c1778, not known to have been executed

Aspect

To the left - Elevation of a clock case with ball feet, and ornamented with anthemia, rosettes, husks, a band of alternating anthemia and calyx and ram masks. The case is surmounted by an urn with paw feet, ornamented with acanthus leaves, figurative medallions, festoons, and a band of guilloche To the right - Elevation of a clock case ornamented with bands of enclosed rosettes and enclosed anthemia, festoons, and ram masks. The clock face is enclosed within a wreath of husks. The case is surmounted by an urn, flanked by winged griffins and ornamented with arabesques, guilloche, and rosettes. Above this there is a fluted socle bearing a sphinx

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Signed and dated

c1778
c1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (243 x 189)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Verso

Preliminary plan for a tripod base

Literature

For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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