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London: Parliament House (designs for). Unfinished design for an urn with a crown as finial, gadrooned top with handles on either side, and a decorated spreading base.
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Reference number
Adam vol.7/139
Purpose
London: Parliament House (designs for). Unfinished design for an urn with a crown as finial, gadrooned top with handles on either side, and a decorated spreading base.
Aspect
Detail
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink in a contemporary hand speaker and Holds three pints and with dimensions
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1762-63
Medium and dimensions
Pen on buff paper
148 x 73
Hand
James Adam
Notes
The word 'speaker' inscribed on the drawing suggests that this design is connected with James Adam's Parliament House scheme of 1762/63. It may be compared with his drawings for a Parliamentary mace in Adam vol.7/19 and for a purse for the Great Seal in Adam vol.7/20. There are no other versions of this design amongst the silver designs in Adam volume 25.
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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