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[100] Design for a sugar shaker, c1760-62
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
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- Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire: designs for landscape architecture, alterations to the house, and interior design for Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 5th Baronet (created Lord Scarsdale 1761), 1759-72 (149)
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 25/85
Purpose
[100] Design for a sugar shaker, c1760-62
Aspect
Elevation of a sugar shaker ornamented with a mask and acanthus leaves (drawn feintly in pencil), surmounted by a fluted shaft ornamented with festoons, and a domed lid
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
For Sir Nathaniel Curzon Baronet and some dimensions given in pencil
Signed and dated
- 1760-1762
date range: 1760-62
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (161 x 226)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Snodin, 1997, p. 19
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Snodin, 1997, p. 19
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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