A Vestal goddess of the hearth, modelled by the sculptor John Bacon R.A. (d. 1799) who was granted a Royal Appointment to the King George III in 1769, is first noted in the 1770s when it was exhibited by Eleanor Coade at the society of Artists Exhibition and continued to be manufactured at the Lambeth Works until the 1820s. The model was attributed to Bacon in the catalogue of Coade's Gallery, 1799 (see A. Kelly, Mrs Coade's stone, worcs. 1990, p.130 fig. 4). The Vestal featured in a wall-niche at Beaumont Lodge, Windsor in the early 1790s, and was also supplied to Earl Fitzwilliam at Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire, in 1814 (see A. Kelly op.cit. p.156 and 131).