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[6] Design for a fire grate, 1767
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 17/123
Purpose
[6] Design for a fire grate, 1767
Aspect
Elevation of a fire grate, with fluted tapering legs, gadrooned ball feet, a base rail ornamented with enclosed rosettes, strigils, anthemia, and calyx, and supporting urns at each end, flanking turned andirons supporting a segmental back plate ornamented with cable moulding
Scale
bar scale of 3 1/4 inches to 1 foot
Inscribed
Grate for _ Oliver Esqr
Signed and dated
- November 1767
Novr 1767
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (402 x 311)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton
Notes
It is not known if this fire grate was executed.
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 21
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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