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  • image SM Adam volume 6/160

Reference number

SM Adam volume 6/160

Purpose

Preliminary design for an armchair, ND

Aspect

Rough elevation of a balloon-back armchair with a cresting of palmette and ornamented with bellflowers. The back is supported by a fluted shoe piece ornamented with a palmette flanked by sphinxes. Gooseneck arms culminate in volute handholds. A seat rail ornamented by olive leaf is punctuated ram masks at the knees and is supported by cabriole legs terminating in paw feet

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • ND

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (200x250)

Hand

probably Adam, Robert (1728--1792), architect
Robert Adam

Level

Drawing

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