Designs for a curtain cornice, door furniture, and wall brackets for candles.

Name: Designs for a curtain cornice, door furniture, and wall brackets for candles.
Author: Adam (Robert, Architect), after.

Book Description

engraving by Benedetto (Benedict) Pastorini, with hand-colouring in green and blue, heightened with white, on laid paper with a watermark of a bow and arrow within a shield, 580 x 435 mm. (22 3/4 x 17 1/8 in), a central horizontal fold, a few short splits at sheet edges, all well outside the plate

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plate VIII from part IV of volume II of ‘The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam’, this part continuing the description of the Seat of the Duke of Northumberland at Sion, this composite plate depicting a range of interior fixtures and fittings in a highly ornamental neo-classical style of largely foliate designs, each captioned in English and French, of a curtain cornice or pelmet at the top of the plate, above four different designs of furniture for the locks of doors, two views, front and side, of a door handle, a bracket surmounted by a vase for holding candles, and another vase for candles to be fixed to the wainscoting of a room

Author Adam (Robert, Architect), after.

Date 1778[-86]

Publisher [Peter Elmsly]

Price: £450.00

Offered by Robert Hall Pictures

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