[46] Design for a girandole for the ante room, 1778, possibly 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)
      - Designs for a mirror frame and girandole for the ante room, 1778, possibly executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/176

Purpose

[46] Design for a girandole for the ante room, 1778, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a girandole, composed of a central medallion, enclosed within a wreath of husks, and the wreath supports two candle branches, and it is surmounted by a rosette within a smaller wreath supporting an eagle. The medallion has an apron of arabesques forming candle branches, rosettes, tubular flower and a mask

Scale

bar scale of 1 ½ inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Girandol for the Anti room at Bathurst House

Signed and dated

January 1778
Adelphi / 31st Janry 1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Indian yellow on laid paper (241 x 407)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Notes

It is not known whether this design was executed.

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 44
Harris, 1963, p. 57
Harris, 2001(b), p. 100
Lea, 2005, p. 11
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Original Drawings of Robert and James Adam, Kenwood House, London, 1953

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