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[26] Finished drawing for a plate warmer for the dining room, 1784, executed status unknown
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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.
Harris, 2001, p. 357
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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