[89] Finished drawing for a tureen, 1773, executed with minor alterations

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - St James's Square, number 20, London, designs for a house and interiors for Watkin Williams-Wynn, c1772-1777 (99)
      - Preliminary designs, designs and finished drawings for silverware, c1773, possibly executed (18)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 25/123

Purpose

[89] Finished drawing for a tureen, 1773, executed with minor alterations

Aspect

Elevation of a tureen with a base ornamented with bands of laurel leaf tips and beading. The tureen is ornamented with gadrooning, guilloche enclosing rosettes, and a ram mask bearing a festoon of beading and flanked by rosettes and festoons of husks. Above the ram mask there are bands of foil, calyx and rosettes, and a band of beading. The handles are formed from lion masks, and the tureen is surmounted by sphinxes. The lid is ornamented with a band of arabesques supporting anthemia and calyx, and a band of enclosed drop calyx. The lid is surmounted with a handle in the form of a wreath

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Turine for Sir Watkin Wynn Baronet / 45 / faint charcoal inscription / 123 (pencil)

Signed and dated

January 1773
Adelphi / 18.t Janry 1773.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (407 x 292)

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

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