[32] Design for a pier glass frame for the ante room for Sir Edward Dering, 1775

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    - Mansfield Street, London: designs for interior decoration of eight houses, built as a speculation by Robert and James Adam, 1772-75 (35)
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        Design for a pier glass frame for the ante room for Sir Edward Dering, 1775 (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/149

Purpose

[32] Design for a pier glass frame for the ante room for Sir Edward Dering, 1775

Aspect

Elevation of an oval pier glass frame, ornamented with fluting, and surmounted by arabesques, a tubular flower and urn within a wreath of bell flowers, a festoon of bell flowers hung from bows, and above is a tubular flower flanked by anthemia

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Glass frame for the Anti room at Sir Edward Derings / (and in feint pencil) space from A[cropped] / Border 2 1/2 / [ ______ ] / Circular [ ______ ]

Signed and dated

05/08/1775
Adelphi / 5t August 1775.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and cerulean blue wash on laid paper (292 x 451)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

IHS IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 42
Harris, 1963, Index p. 56
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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