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Robert Adam & his brothers : their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture (1915)

Swarbrick, John, b. 1879 · London : B.T. Batsford · leaf 138

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ins three white side tables, enriched with gold andsurmounted by slabs of .Sicilian jasper, a beautiful kind of rose breccia.There are also two tall cream pedestals, likewise enriched with gilding,and two other smaller ones of similar character. The taller pedestalssupport in each case a bronze urn… … z p -Ti ■A-I aA O o •j I DO I04 Till. LIVKS AND WORK OF ROHKRT AND JAMKS ADAM a base of breccia, l-our mahogany, silver-mounted knife lioxes havebeen preserved, together with a large wine-cooler or cistern, which wascarved in accordance with the designs of James Stuart, the architect,out of a block…

Adam, Robert, 1728-1792 · Adam, James, d. 1794 · Architecture

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