Lot 1422
1422
A PAIR OF COADE STONE ORNAMENTAL URNS, each with a spirally fluted lid surmounted by a spherical finial, the tapering circular body decorated with swags interspersed with rosettes, the lower part fluted, the spreading circular foot decorated with a guilloche border, on square plinth inscribed 'COADE LONDON' (weathering; minor chips; the upper section modern), late 18th/early 19th century

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A PAIR OF COADE STONE ORNAMENTAL URNS, each with a spirally fluted lid surmounted by a spherical finial, the tapering circular body decorated with swags interspersed with rosettes, the lower part fluted, the spreading circular foot decorated with a guilloche border, on square plinth inscribed 'COADE LONDON' (weathering; minor chips; the upper section modern), late 18th/early 19th century
22¼in. (56.5cm.) diam.; 46in. (116.9cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

The pattern for this 'Antique' vase with festooned drapery features in Etchings of Coade's, Artificial Stone Manufactory, circa 1778, (see J. Davis Antique Garden Ornament, Woodbridge, 1991, pp. 345), vases of this pattern designed for the chapel niches at Lulworth Castle, Dorset by the architect John Tasker in 1786, are illustrated A. Kelly Mrs Coade's Stone, Upton-upon-Severn, 1990, pp. 196

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