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  • image SM Adam volume 25/108

Reference number

SM Adam volume 25/108

Purpose

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

Aspect

Plan and elevation of an epergne, supported by four tapering and curved legs, ornamented with ram masks, rosettes, beading, crockets, anthemia, arabesques, and guilloche, and the top bowl has an apron of festoons, and is ornamented with fluting, beading, rosettes and a coat of arms, and has four oval concave projecting lips, and a central circular concave bowl

Scale

bar scale of 5 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

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

Signed and dated

  • 1773
    1773.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (294 x 431)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

LVG surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

The Classical Ideal: English Silver 1760-1840, Koopman Rare Art, London, 3 - 25 June 2010

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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