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Reference number
SM Adam volume 54/7/62
Purpose
Preliminary design for a chair, ND
Aspect
Rough part-drawn view of a side chair with a flat top rail and fluted back slats wreathed with bellflowers and ornamented with patera flanking a fluted back splat ornamented with bellflower festoons and a patera and supported by a shoe piece with laurel leaf tips. The seat rail is ornamented with guilloche enclosing rosettes and is supported by a sabre leg and by a fluted, turned leg ornamented by patera and terminating in a whorl foot
Scale
not to scale
Signed and dated
- ND
Medium and dimensions
Pen on laid paper (162x287)
Hand
probably Adam, Robert (1728--1792), architect
Robert Adam
Robert Adam
Level
Drawing
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