Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture (1915)
Swarbrick, John, b. 1879 · London, B.T. Batsford, ltd., New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 138
s now contains 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… … 104 THE LIVES AND WORK OF ROBERT AND JAMES ADAM a base of breccia. Four mahogany, silver-mounted knife boxes 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 of Sicilian jasper. With the…
Adam, Robert, 1728-1792 · Adam, James, d. 1794 · Architecture · Decoration and ornament, Architectural · Furniture
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