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[20] Preliminary design for a sideboard table and wine cistern for the dining room, 1783, as executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 6/115
Purpose
[20] Preliminary design for a sideboard table and wine cistern for the dining room, 1783, as executed
Aspect
Rough elevation of a detail of sideboard table, and rough plan and elevation of a wine cistern. The table has ten legs, ornamented with drops of calyx and ram masks, with paw feet, surmounted by a table rail ornamented with fluting, rosettes, and a tablet ornamented with rosettes, festoons. The wine cistern is rectangular with apsidal ends, and is ornamented with paw feet, fluting, lion mask handles, and a figurative tablet
Scale
not to scale
Signed and dated
- 1783
datable to 1783
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (413 x 244)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 23
Harris, 1963, Index p. 51
Harris, 2001, p. 357
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1963, Index p. 51
Harris, 2001, p. 357
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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