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  • image SM Adam volume 25/121

Reference number

SM Adam volume 25/121

Purpose

[86] Design for a tureen, 1773, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a tureen with a socle base ornamented with a band of laurel leaf tips, and a band of rosettes and festoons. The base supports winged sphinxes which bear a tureen. The tureen is ornamented with gadrooning, figurative ovals, ram masks, and bands of festoons and acanthus leaves. The gadrooned lid is formed with a rosette surmounted by a pine cone

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Turine for Sir Watkin Wynn Bart. / 43

Signed and dated

  • January 1773
    Adelphi / 18.t Janry 1773

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (407 x 312)

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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