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  • image SM Adam volume 6/115

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.

Level

Drawing

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

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