Live Auction 6027Christie's Interiors
AN ENGLISH ARTIFICIAL STONE FIGURE OF SYBIL
Lot 252 PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION 

AN ENGLISH ARTIFICIAL STONE FIGURE OF SYBIL

BY ELEANOR COADE, LAMBETH, EARLY 19TH CENTURY, THE DESIGN ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN BACON

Closed15 May 2012

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GBP 2,875

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AN ENGLISH ARTIFICIAL STONE FIGURE OF SYBIL
BY ELEANOR COADE, LAMBETH, EARLY 19TH CENTURY, THE DESIGN ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN BACON
44 in. (112 cm.) high

Sold Summers Place Auctions, 20 May 2008, lot 90.

Specialist note

Eleanor Coade published a series of designs by John Bacon in her catalogue Coade's Gallery of 1799. The present figure is amongst the most successful designs of the Lambeth artificial stone manufacture. The earliest version may also have been commissioned by Sir John Griffin Griffin for a chimneypiece at Audley End in 1773, together with a pendant figure of a Vestal (A. Kelly, Mrs Coade's Stone, Upton-upon-Severn, 1990, pp. 129-130, n. 18).