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  • image SM Adam volume 25/120

Reference number

SM Adam volume 25/120

Purpose

[85] Unfinished design for a punch bowl, c1773, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a punch bowl with a socle base ornamented with a band of laurel leaf tips, a band of reed, a central patera set within strigilation, and a band of guilloche. The bowl is ornamented with gadrooning, a band of Vitruvian scroll enclosing anthemia and flanked by bands of beading, and a ram mask which forms the handle. The ram mask is flanked by festoons and rosettes, and above this there is a band of guilloche and a band of arabesques with rosettes

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Punch Bowl for Sir Watkin Wynn / 42 / 120 (pencil)

Signed and dated

  • c1773
    c1773

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (407 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.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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