SM Adam volume 49/6

[44] Design for a pilaster for the great drawing room, c1779, as executed

Elevation of an ornamental pilaster, with a central painted panel flanked by bands of beading, thyrsi, and lozenges enclosing arabesques and anthemia. The central panel is ornamented with a pedestal embellished with festoons suspending a pendent oil lamp, rosettes and ram masks, and this is surmounted by an urn. Above this, bands of calyx enclose an anthemion bearing a fountain ornamented with gadrooning and beading, and a cameo, depicting winged sphinxes, enclosed by arabesques. This is surmounted by a further cameo, depicting a draped figure, and a rosette, both enclosed within a figure-of-eight wreath of oak leaves. Above this a tubular flower supports further wreaths enclosing anthemia, and a roundel depicting winged putti. This is surmounted by an urn, ornamented with gadrooning, flanked by beading with suspended peltoid shields, and surmounted by arabesques, a tubular flower, and a draped figure bearing urns. Above this there are further arabesques and tubular flowers bearing an oil lamp which is ornamented with ram masks and swags and surmounted by an urn bearing drop calyx. Above this there are calyx, arabesques and anthemia, a rosette enclosed within a foil roundel, and a tubular flower surmounted by a tablet containing a rosette, enclosed within a lozenge, flanked by arabesques. The tablet has an apron of beading, suspending rosettes, and is surmounted by anthemia, arabesques and an Etruscan urn ornamented with draped figures