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[25] Finished drawing for a plate warmer for the dining room, 1784, executed status unknown
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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.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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