[3] Finished drawings for urns and a candlestick, c1775, possibly executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Roxburghe House, Hanover Square, London, designs for a house and interiors for John Ker, 3rd Duke of Roxburghe, c1775-79 (55)
      - Preliminary designs, design and finished drawings for urns, candelsticks and a candelabrum, c1775, possibly executed (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 25/130-132

Purpose

[3] Finished drawings for urns and a candlestick, c1775, possibly executed

Aspect

Left- Elevation of an urn as SM Adam Volume 49/57 Centre – Elevation of a candlestick as SM Adam volume 49/58, with minor alterations Right – Elevation of an urn ornamented with bands of acanthus leaves, a band of guilloche, and a lion mask bearing festoons. Above the mask there is a band of guilloche enclosing anthemia. The scrolled handles are formed from foliage and terminate in medallions, and the neck of the urn is ornamented with a band of guilloche

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Cups & Candlestick for The Duke of Roxburghe / -2 and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

c1775
c1775

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (593 x 444)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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