[1] Preliminary design for an urn, 1775, 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)
      - 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 49/57

Purpose

[1] Preliminary design for an urn, 1775, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of an urn with a base ornamented with a band of wreaths. The urn is ornamented with gadrooning, a band of reed and ribbon, and a band of rosettes enclosed within wreaths flanked by bands of beading. The scrolled handles terminate in ram masks, the neck is ornamented with beading, and the lid ornamented with fret and surmounted by a rosette and a pine cone

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Top takes off at / this line / Two quart Caps for his / Grace the Duke of Roxburghe / Paint leaf (pencil)

Signed and dated

August 1775
Margate 27th August 1775 / Robt Adam

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (291 x 431)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Notes

This drawing has fold marks as if it has been posted.

Literature

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

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Drawing

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