[75] Preliminary design for a coffee pot, c1773, possibly executed

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    - St James's Square, number 20, London, designs for a house and interiors for Watkin Williams-Wynn, c1772-1777 (99)
      - Preliminary designs, designs and finished drawings for silverware, c1773, possibly executed (18)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 6/94

Purpose

[75] Preliminary design for a coffee pot, c1773, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a tripod stand with sabre legs, paw feet, and a central urn ornamented with gadrooning, guilloche, ram masks, festoons and rosettes, and the urn is flanked by scroll work. The tripod supports a burner and jug ornamented with a band of laurel leaf tips, gadrooning, a monogram set within a wreath, bands of beading, a band of rosettes enclosed within wreaths, and a band of foil. The jug handle is formed in a scroll with a rosette set at the centre

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Sketch of a / coffee pot for / W. W. W. (all in pencil)

Signed and dated

c1773
c1773

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (205 x 330)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Literature

Fairclough, 1995, pp. 376-386
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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