Lot Essay
The present tripod pedestal is likely to have been purchased by Sir George Osborn from Eleanor Coade (d.1821) and her cousin and partner John Sealy (d.1813) for Chicksands Priory, Bedfordshire, around 1809.
The design for the pedestal has been attributed to the architect James Wyatt (d.1813). A sketch for a related pedestal may be found amongst the 1778 Coade etchings now preserved in the Guildhall Library, while listed in the Descriptive Catalogue of Coade's Artificial Stone Manufactory under pedestals as "no. 135" is a triangular pedestal with "figures at the angles 3' 2" diam 3' 5½" 21 pounds". Four closely related pedestals belonging to Sir John Dashwood-King (d.1793) were described at Norton, Lincolnshire in 1781 as "4 Composition therms Designed and Executed in a Masterly Stile" (see G. Beard, Dictionary of Furniture Makers, p.181 and A. Kelly, Mrs Coade's Stone, 1990, pp. 110 and 183, figs. 19-20).
A similar pedestal, introduced by Nathaniel, 2nd Baron Scarsdale (d.1837) at Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire was sold in these Rooms 5 July 1990, lot 89.
The design for the pedestal has been attributed to the architect James Wyatt (d.1813). A sketch for a related pedestal may be found amongst the 1778 Coade etchings now preserved in the Guildhall Library, while listed in the Descriptive Catalogue of Coade's Artificial Stone Manufactory under pedestals as "no. 135" is a triangular pedestal with "figures at the angles 3' 2" diam 3' 5½" 21 pounds". Four closely related pedestals belonging to Sir John Dashwood-King (d.1793) were described at Norton, Lincolnshire in 1781 as "4 Composition therms Designed and Executed in a Masterly Stile" (see G. Beard, Dictionary of Furniture Makers, p.181 and A. Kelly, Mrs Coade's Stone, 1990, pp. 110 and 183, figs. 19-20).
A similar pedestal, introduced by Nathaniel, 2nd Baron Scarsdale (d.1837) at Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire was sold in these Rooms 5 July 1990, lot 89.