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  • image SM Adam volume 6/94

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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