EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Related life-size vestals modelled by Francis Hardenberg (d.1832) were supplied in 1800 by the Mount Street 'Pectrification Manufacturers', Hardenberg & Co. to Burghley House, Lincolnshire (Country House Lighting, Temple Newsam House Studies, 1992, fig 118). A related small lamp vestal model has been recorded with the stamp of the plaster figure maker Robert Shout, whose 1806 bill-head advertised 'a large sortment of figures and tripods holding lamps or candles of various patterns and dimensions' (Christie's, 21 July 1988, lot 22; T. Clifford, The Plaster Shops of the Rococo and Neo-Classical Era in Britain, Journal of the History of Collections, 1992, vol. IV, pp.63-64)