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

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    - 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 25/134

Purpose

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

Aspect

Elevation of a tureen, with a socle base ornamented with anthemia enclosed within scrolled hearts, and unlobed acanthus leaves, and with a body ornamented with enclosed rosettes, festoons of bell flowers, and sinuous handles, and with a lid ornamented with gadrooning

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Design of a Turine for His Grace / The Duke of Northumberland

Signed and dated

04/03/1779
Adelphi / 4t. March 1779.

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (362 x 258)

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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