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Preliminary design for an urn, ND
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 6/88
Purpose
Preliminary design for an urn, ND
Aspect
Rough elevation of a cup-shaped urn with two twisted handles culminating in sphinxes and with a lid surmounted by foliage. The shoulders are marked by masks, a band of bellflowers enclosing rosettes and a figurative medallion. The urn surmounts lion’s paw feet and the whole is mounted on a fluted pedestal supported by sphinxes
Scale
not to scale
Signed and dated
- ND
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (320x200)
Hand
probably Adam, Robert (1728--1792), architect
Robert Adam
Robert Adam
Level
Drawing
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