Lot 24

Eleanor Coade's 'Artificial Stone Manufactory' was established at King's Arms Stairs, Narrow Wall, Lambeth - now the site of the Royal Festival Hall. Eleanor Coade (1708-1796) and her daughter, also Eleanor (1733-1821), founded the business in partnership with a Daniel Pincot in 1769, who had been manufacturing artificial stone in Lambeth during the 1760's. Pincot is the probable vendor of 138 lots, catalogued as 'The Year's Produce of Artificial Stone Manufactory' at the newly opened Pall Mall auction rooms of James Christie on 22 and 23 December 1767. The partnership between Coade and Pincot lasted until 1771 from which point the younger Coade, for the most part, drove the business to become foremost in the field.

A GEORGE III TERRACOTTA PORTRAIT MEDALLION

ATTRIBUTED TO COADE, LATE 18TH CENTURY

Details

A GEORGE III TERRACOTTA PORTRAIT MEDALLION
ATTRIBUTED TO COADE, LATE 18TH CENTURY
Restoration
21½ in. (55 cm.) diameter

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Lot Essay

Closely related 'Coade Stone' portrait roundels were employed circa 1790 in the decoration of the stable block at Gosford House, East Lothian, Scotland, which is attributed to the renowned architect Robert Adam. The roundels at Gosford are illustrated in, Alison Kelly, Mrs Coade's Stone, Upton-upon-Severn, 1990, p. 75.

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