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  • image SM Adam volume 25/84

Reference number

SM Adam volume 25/84

Purpose

[101] Design for a sugar shaker, c1760-62

Aspect

Elevation of a sugar shaker ornamented with arabesques and acanthus leaves, surmounted by a spiral fluted curving shaft, a capital ornamented with masks, and a lid ornamented with anthemia and surmounted by a pine-cone [?]

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

For Sir Nathaniel Curzon Bart.

Signed and dated

  • 1760-1762
    date range: 1760-62

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (163 x 227)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Snodin, 1997, p. 19
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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