[20] Design for altering a tureen, 1779; it is not known if this design was executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Northumberland House, The Strand, London: designs for the drawing room and dining room for the 1st Duke of Northumberland, 1770-79 (24)
      - Preliminary designs and designs for altering two tureens, and for a new tureen and tureen lid, 1779; it is not known if these designs were executed (6)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 25/136

Purpose

[20] Design for altering a tureen, 1779; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Elevation of a detail of a tripod tureen, with paw feet, acanthus leaf legs, and ornamented with lion masks, enclosed rosettes, festoons, a cable moulding wreath, rinceaux, sinuous arms, and the lid is ornamented with gadrooning and laurel leaves

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Sketch of a turine for the Duke of Northumberland / The black part is the alteration

Signed and dated

09/04/1779
Adelphi / 9t. April 1779

Medium and dimensions

Pen, red pen and pencil on laid paper (255 x 328)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 42
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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