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Preliminary design for a tablet for a chimneypiece for an eating room, 1775
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 6/91
Purpose
Preliminary design for a tablet for a chimneypiece for an eating room, 1775
Aspect
Elevation of a chimneypiece tablet depicting an urn ornamented with bands of gadrooning, a band of rosettes set between bands of beading and a central figurative panel flanked by festoons of husks. The lid of the urn is ornamented with further gadrooning and a central patera and it is flanked by winged sphinxes which suspend drops of husks, roundels ornamented with rosettes and drop calyx
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
Tablet for an Eating room Chimney with / a Bas Relief of Bacchanalian Boys (in the hand of Robert Adam)
Signed and dated
- January 1775
21st Janry 1775
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (145x145)
Hand
Probably
Robert Adam
Robert Adam
Level
Drawing
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