[94] Record drawing for a plate warmer designed by James Stuart, c1760-62

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire: designs for landscape architecture, alterations to the house, and interior design for Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 5th Baronet (created Lord Scarsdale 1761), 1759-72 (149)
    - Designs for the interior decoration and furniture including the hall, saloon, drawing room, dining room, music room, library, ante room, breakfasting parlour, staircase, state bed room, and principal dressing rooms
      - Record drawing for a plate warmer designed by James Stuart, c1760-62 (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 25/93

Purpose

[94] Record drawing for a plate warmer designed by James Stuart, c1760-62

Aspect

Elevation of a plate warmer in the shape of an urn with a fluted socle and four sphinxes at the base, with bands ornamented with acanthus leaves bound in ribbon, coin moulding, herms, a band of enclosed anthemia, two spiralled arms terminating in masks, and a lid ornamented with gadrooning, unlobed acanthus leaves, and surmounted by a flaming cup

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Plate warmer for Sir Nathaniel Curzon Bart

Signed and dated

1760-1762
date range: 1760-62

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (407 x 587)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Harris, 1963, Index p. 50
Harris, 1987, p. 34
Snodin, 2007, pp. 469, 482-83
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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