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[99] Preliminary design for a sauce boat and sugar shaker, c1760-62
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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 54/3/27
Purpose
[99] Preliminary design for a sauce boat and sugar shaker, c1760-62
Aspect
Elevation of sauce boat ornamented with a volute handle, cabriole legs, gadrooning, a figurative tablet, and enclosed rosettes, and a sugar shaker ornamented with spiral fluting, a band of enclosed rosettes, drops on a curved shafts, and masks in the capitals (verso) elevation of a sugar shaker
Scale
not to scale
Signed and dated
- 1760-1762
date range: 1760-62
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (244 x 189)
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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