[23] Preliminary design for the lid of 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 18/21

Purpose

[23] Preliminary design for the lid of a tureen, 1779; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Elevation of a lid for a tureen, with an oval handle, and ornamented with gadrooning, festoons, a band of laurel leaves bound by ribbons, enclosed poppies, and figure-of-eight ribbons

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

1779
datable to 1779

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (511 x 228)

Hand

Robert Adam

Watermark

JWHATMAN

Literature

For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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