REF 1810
A rare pair of Neo Classical, Coade stone finials, c. 1786.
Each of inverted campana shape, the necks with gadrooned striglyphs above a band of lambs tongue leaves. The shoulders with swags of knotted drapery centred with flower heads. The lower half of the bodies decorated with tapering flutes.
The whole supported by collared soccles adorned with a band of leaves echoing those on the shoulders and lower down with a thin band of entwined guilloche standing on a squared plinth.
Illustrated in " Coade's Lathodipyra " of circa 1783 and described in the firms descriptive catalogue dated 1784 as " No 91, vase flutes and Festoons of Drapery, Height 3ft 11 £ 2 15 schillings " A taller version with a height of 4 foot 7 inches could also be bought.
Mrs Coade's Lambeth factory supplied an almost identical finial in 1786, to the East Lulworth Roman Catholic Church at Lulworth castle, illustrated in Mrs Coade's Stone by Alison Kelly, page 196.
- Height 119.5 cm (471/4 in)
- Width 29.5 cm (113/4 in)
- Diameter 58.5 cm (231/4 in)
