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  • image SM Adam volume 54/7/62

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

Level

Drawing

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