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

Explore Collections

You are here: CollectionsOnline / [12] Designs for a sideboard, wine cooler and urns, 1774, possibly executed

Browse

Books

Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Ashburnham House, 19 Dover Street, London, for John, 2nd Earl of Ashburnham, c1773-76 (47)
      - Designs for a sideboard, wine cooler and urns, 1774, possibly executed (1)

Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image

Print this image in A4 view

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

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).