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[27] Design for a racing cup, c1763-66
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 25/103
Purpose
[27] Design for a racing cup, c1763-66
Aspect
Elevation of a cup, supported by a socle ornamented with waterleaf, fluting, and gadrooning. The cup is ornamented with fluting, wreaths, festoons, ribbons, a medallion showing horses and riders, a figurative band of people riding horses, two handles in the form of lions, and a neck ornamented with spiral fluting, acanthus leaves, guilloche, and gadrooning, and a lid ornamented with acanthus leaves, and a tubular flower surmounted by an acorn
Scale
full size
Inscribed
Vase for Thomas Dundas Esqr for a Prize (in the hand of William Adam)
Signed and dated
- 1763-1766
Robt Adam Archt and date range: 1763-66
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (212 x 446)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam
Literature
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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