A George III Coade stone finial

CIRCA 1780

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A George III Coade stone finial
Circa 1780
Surmounted by a domed top with cone terminal, above a circular gadrooned rim, on a spirally fluted waisted neck, above an ovoid body flanked by two satyr masks and two flower paterae, joined by drapery swags, the lower section with leaf tips, on a spreading circular socle with guilloche frieze, with a square plinth
46 in. (118 cm.) high; 19 in. (49.5 cm.) diameter

Lot Essay

The garden urn, of krater-vase form enriched with palms and flowered patterae veil-draped from festive satyr-mask handles, corresponds to a pattern illustrated in Eleanor Coade's Etchings of Coade's Artificial Stone Manufactory, 1778 (see J. Davis, Antique Garden ornament, Woodbridge, 1991, p. 345). The upper neck section of this vase however differs from that illustrated.

An urn of similar design was sold at Christie's, the property of T. Crowther & Son, 12-14 October 1992, lot 1422.

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