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Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/23

Purpose

[12] Designs for a sideboard, wine cooler and urns, 1774, possibly executed

Aspect

Centre- Elevation of a sideboard table with block feet, tapered, fluted legs and capitals containing paterae. There is a frieze ornamented with urns and arabesques supporting calyx, and this has a central tablet containing a mask, crossed with thyrsi and flanked by festoons. Above this there is a band of laurel leaf tips and a band of guilloche. The sideboard supports plate(?) and candelabra Below- Elevation of a wine cooler with block feet and lion masks forming handles. The wine cooler is ornamented with bands of Vitruvian scroll and of guilloche enclosing rosettes, and there is a central lion mask set within a wreath Left and right- Elevation of a plinth ornamented with a band of Vitruvian scroll, and a central panel containing a patera surrounded by rosettes. There is a frieze of enclosed anthemia(?) and capitals ornamented with ram masks which suspend drop calyx. The plinth supports an urn with a socle base, and the urn is ornamented with gadrooning

Scale

bar scale of 1 ¾ inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Sideboard Table for The Earl of Ashburnham / 23

Signed and dated

  • May 1774
    Adelphi / 6.t May 1774

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (514 x 346)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 36
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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