[24] Unfinished design for a sideboard table for the eating room, c1779, possibly executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - London
    - Roxburghe House, Hanover Square, London, designs for a house and interiors for John Ker, 3rd Duke of Roxburghe, c1775-79 (55)
      - Unfinished design for a sideboard table for the eating room, c1779, possibly executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/51

Purpose

[24] Unfinished design for a sideboard table for the eating room, c1779, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a sideboard table with turned feet and tapering legs, with capitals containing paterae. The table has a frieze of rosettes suspending festoons of husks, and a central figurative oval flanked by cameos. Above the frieze there is a band of moulding and a band of guilloche

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Sideboard Table for the Dining room at Roxburghe House / 51 (pencil)

Signed and dated

c1779
c1779

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Naples yellow on laid paper (427 x 239)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Watermark

Cartouche surmounted by a fleur-de-lis

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 40
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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