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  • image SM Adam volume 25/86

Reference number

SM Adam volume 25/86

Purpose

[102] Design for a sugar shaker, c1760-62

Aspect

Elevation of a sugar shaker ornamented with acanthus leaves, masks and an inscription panel, surmounted by a fluted shaft ornamented with acanthus leaves at the base, and festoons in the capital. The lid is ornamented with rosettes enclosed by diamonds, and surmounted by a pine-cone [?]

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

For Sir Nathaniel Curzon Bart

Signed and dated

  • 1760-1762
    date range: 1760-62

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (338 x 263)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias

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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