[16] Design for an epergne, 1773; it is not known if this design was executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Curzon Street, number 30, Westminster: designs for interior decoration, furniture and plate for the Hon. Henry Frederick Thynne, 1771-73 (18)
      - Alternative preliminary design and designs for plate, 1773; it is not known if these designs were executed (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 25/107

Purpose

[16] Design for an epergne, 1773; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Plan and elevation of an epergne, supported by four tapering and curved legs, ornamented with ram masks, rosettes, beading, crockets, anthemia, and guilloche, and resting on strigillated socle-shaped pedestals with ball feet, and the top bowl has an apron of festoons, and is ornamented with acanthus leaves, fluting, beading, and a coat of arms, and has four projecting lips ornamented with paterae

Scale

bar scale of 5 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Desert Dish for The Rt. Hon.ble H.F. Thynne

Signed and dated

22/04/1773
Apl. 22d. 1773.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (292 x 446)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

IHS IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 36
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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