[4] Design for a pier glass frame for the ante room, 1774; it is not known if this design was executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Grosvenor Square, number 23 (number 26 from 1862), London: designs for interior decoration and furnishings for Lord Edward Stanley, (later 12th Earl of Derby), 1773-75 (94)
      - Design for the ante room pier glass, July 1774; it is not known if this design was executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/133

Purpose

[4] Design for a pier glass frame for the ante room, 1774; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Elevation of an oval pier glass frame, ornamented with a wreath of calyx in the frame, an apron of festoons and a deer mask, and hung from a chain attended by figure-of-eight bell flowers, hung from a medallion flanked by festoons, and within the frame are four enclosed rosettes, encircling a central oval containing a wall bracket with an apron of festoons, and supporting winged sphinxes flanking a drop of calyx, a fan and tubular flowers

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Pier Glass for the Anti room at Lord Stanleys in Grosvr Sqr

Signed and dated

27/07/1774
Adelphi / 27t. July 1774.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, wash and verdigris wash on laid paper (291 x 433)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 38
Harris, 1963, Index p. 55; p. 88
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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