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1) Rough elevation of a fluted, cup-shaped urn supported by three legs
2) Elevation of jug with a twisted handle which is ornamented at the lip by a band of guilloche. At the neck, ribbon-of-eight bellflower husks enclose rosettes and are bordered by bands of guilloche. Below, a central portion ornamented by a patera and by acanthus leaves is bordered by portions of petals and the whole is supported by a fluted foot
3) Elevation of a cup-shaped urn supported by three cabriole legs and ornamented with figures. A central, strigilled portion includes a patera
4) Elevation of a jug with a curved handle and a slanted mouth for pouring. A central portion of lozenges and drops is bordered by fluting and guilloche and the whole is supported by three cabriole legs
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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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