[83] Design for a serving dish, 1773, 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 25/117

Purpose

[83] Design for a serving dish, 1773, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a dish supported by a fluted base surmounted by winged griffins. The dish is ornamented with an exterior band of gadrooning. The interior contains a central rosette enclosed within bands of rosettes and gadrooning, and the lip of the dish is ornamented with arabesques supporting anthemia and calyx

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

For Sir Watkin Wynn Bart / 39

Signed and dated

January 1773
Adelphi / 18t Janry 1773.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (409 x 294)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 50
Fairclough, 1995, pp. 376-386
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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Drawing

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