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Preliminary design for a stove, ND
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 24/218
Purpose
Preliminary design for a stove, ND
Aspect
Elevation of a stove, with a strigilated grate ornamented with lion masks; the grate is surmounted by a shaft composed of a tapering pedestal containing a cameo, a moulded and gadrooned base, a fluted shaft with a tablet containing festoons, and surmounted by a flaming urn ornamented by enclosed rosettes; and the grate is flanked by pedestals ornamented with drops of calyx, and surmounted gadrooned flaming urns
Scale
to a rough scale
Signed and dated
- ND
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and sepia wash on laid paper (136x227)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
Spiers, 1979, p. 44
Level
Drawing
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