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London: Parliament House (designs for). Design for a three-legged table with panelled top. Below this is a detail of a table leg with spiral decoration and a claw and ball foot, with stretcher and panelled top.
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Reference number
Adam vol.7/97
Purpose
London: Parliament House (designs for). Design for a three-legged table with panelled top. Below this is a detail of a table leg with spiral decoration and a claw and ball foot, with stretcher and panelled top.
Aspect
Details
verso details
Inscribed
verso Inscribed in pencil in a contemporary Italian hand Fregio / Architrave/ Capitello and Pilastro
Signed and dated
- Undated, but probaly 1762 -63
Medium and dimensions
Black chalk
291 x 84
Hand
James Adam, Office of
Verso
Designs in black chalk with guidelines showing three alternative table legs, one above the other, with urn tops and spiral decoration.
Notes
The table and legs here and on the verso are a close version of the design in Adam vol.7/83, which may also be by the same draughtsman; the handwriting on the verso is probably in the same hand. The table was intended for use in some way in James Adam's Parliament House scheme, and is typical of Adam's furniture designs of the 1760s (see E. Harris, The Furniture of Robert Adam, London, 1963, pls.15 and 16).
Level
Drawing
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