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  • image SM Adam volume 25/122

Reference number

SM Adam volume 25/122

Purpose

[87] Finished drawing for a tureen, 1773, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a tureen with a base ornamented with bands of laurel leaf tips, fluting, and beading. The tureen is ornamented with figurative ovals set with calyx wreaths, festoons of calyx, ram masks and bands of acanthus leaf, beading, and rosettes set within wreaths. The lid is formed from a rosette surmounted by a pine cone

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Turine for Sir Watkin Wynn Bart. / 44

Signed and dated

  • March 1773
    Adelphi / 9.t March 1773.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (408 x 332)

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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