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[97] Design for a sideboard table and mirror frame for the breakfast room, 1777, as executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 20/49
Purpose
[97] Design for a sideboard table and mirror frame for the breakfast room, 1777, as executed
Aspect
Elevation of a sideboard table, with four fluted tapering legs, with block feet, and a fluted table rail ornamented with enclosed rosettes, surmounted by tripartite mirror frame, articulated by tapering Doric pilasters, and ornamented with swags, enclosed rosettes, fluting, beading, anthemia, bell flowers, festoons, arabesques, and rectangular panels containing miniature swags, surmounted by an urn, and with pencil annotations to the left-hand side, and above showing an alternative arrangement for the top of the frame, and with a flier showing an alternative arrangement for the top of the frame incorporating terms, and half-putti
Scale
bar scale of 1 3/8 inches to 1 foot
Inscribed
Glass & Table for the Breakfasting room at Osterly
Signed and dated
- April 1777
Adelphi / 24t Ap. 1777
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Indian yellow and cerulean blue on laid paper (451 x 291) (flier 154 x 178)
Hand
Adam office hand, either Joseph Bonomi or Robert Adam
Verso
Osterly (in pencil)
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
Harris, 1963, pp. 51, 71, 84
Tomlin, 1972, pp. 84-85
Harris, 2001, p. 352
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1963, pp. 51, 71, 84
Tomlin, 1972, pp. 84-85
Harris, 2001, p. 352
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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