BY ELEANOR COADE, LAMBETH, DATED 1809, THE DESIGN ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN BACON

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A PAIR OF REGENCY COADE STONE FIGURAL CANDELABRA
BY ELEANOR COADE, LAMBETH, DATED 1809, THE DESIGN ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN BACON
One modelled as a Vestal, with fringing on her robes, the other as a Sibyl, holding a scroll, each holding a candlebranch socket, one in her left hand, the other in her right hand, on a circular plinth, both stamped 'COADE LAMBETH, 1809', lacking shades
52½ in. (133 cm.) high (2)

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拍品专文

Eleanor Coade published a series of designs by John Bacon in her catalogue Coade's Gallery of 1799. The present pair of figures are based on a design for a Vestal and a Sybil [sic: Mrs Coade's spelling]. They were possibly the most successful designs of the Lambeth artificial stone manufacture. The earliest 'Vestal' was commissioned by Sir John Griffin Griffin for Audley End in 1773 at a cost of 15 guineas (A. Kelly, Mrs Coade's Stone, Upton-upon-Severn, 1990, p. 43). The earliest Sybil [sic] may also have been made for a chimneypiece at Audley End (op. cit., pp. 129-130, n. 18), suggesting that they were often intended to be viewed as a pair.

The pattern was subtly elaborated upon and nos. 34 and 35 of the same 1799 catalogue, shows each figure depicted with a scrolled candlebranch. The vestal virgin design was adapted very slightly in another design [no. 9] that was intended as pure sculpture, either for interior adornment or garden aggrandisement (A. Kelly, 'Coade Stone Interiors', Antique Collector, July 1986, p. 50, fig. 1).