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1) Elevation of a cup-shaped urn with a motif of bellflower around the lip and a central figurative portion surmounting bands of animals, laurel leaf tips, and petals
2) Elevation of an urn with two handles, with a fluted neck and a central portion containing a figurative medallion encircled by foliage and arabesques, which is bordered by bands of petals and coin moulding at the foot
3) Elevation of an urn with two handles, with a band of laurel leaf tips at the lip and a portion of lozenges at the neck. A central band containing figurative medallions is surmounted by bands of lozenges and grotesque. The foot is ringed by laurel leaf tips and petals
4) Elevation of an egg-shaped urn with two curved handles culminating in spirals, with coin moulding at the lip and arabesques on the neck. A central figurative band contains a monument
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Hand
Robert Adam
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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.
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