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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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