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Reference number

SM Adam volume 25/141

Purpose

[25] Finished drawing for a plate warmer for the dining room, 1784, executed status unknown

Aspect

Elevation of a drum-shaped plate warmer, with paw feet, and a fluted tapering base, surmounted by a shaft ornamented with an oval rosette enclosed within a wreath, articulated by pilasters with ram mask capitals, and connected by festoons, and with a frieze of connected enclosed rosettes, and surmounted by a bowl ornamented with swags, a miniature rosette, and fluting

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 1 foot

Signed and dated

  • 184
    datable to 1784

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including terre verte, Naples yellow and cerulean blue on laid paper (396 x 287)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam or Robert Morison

Watermark

fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 23
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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