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Reference number

SM Adam volume 25/138

Purpose

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

Aspect

Elevation of a drum-shaped plate warmer, with a stepped and tapering base, ornamented with ox skulls connected by festoons, and alternating with enclosed rosettes, surmounted by a shaft ornamented with bands of calyx, mask-shaped handles, and a frieze of laurel leaves, and surmounted by a neck or socle ornamented with a cameo flanked by swags

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 1 foot

Signed and dated

  • 1784
    datable to 1784

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Naples yellow and cerulean blue on laid paper (398 x 284)

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
Harris, 2001, p. 357
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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