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[13] Finished drawing for a tripod candlestand for an unknown room, c1764-65
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 25/101
Purpose
[13] Finished drawing for a tripod candlestand for an unknown room, c1764-65
Aspect
Elevation of a candlestand, supported by a tripod ornamented with paw feet, fluting, festoons, and lion masks, and a socle ornamented with rosettes, Vitruvian scroll, stiff leaf, and gadrooning, surmounted by an urn ornamented with anthemia, arabesques, rosettes, guilloche, gadrooning, fluting, and acanthus leaves, and supporting candle branches ornamented with calyx, and acanthus leaves
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Lord Thanet (in pencil) / Vase Candlestick for The Earl of Thanet (in the hand of William Adam)
Signed and dated
- 1764-1765
date range: 1764-65
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Naples yellow and sepia on laid paper (368 x 511)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly George Richardson or James Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 39
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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