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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.

Level

Drawing

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

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