Live Auction 5303Christie's Style & Spirit
A GEORGE III ARTIFICIAL 'COADE' STONE URN FINIAL
Lot 450

A GEORGE III ARTIFICIAL 'COADE' STONE URN FINIAL

BY CROGGAN, DATED 1817

Closed16 September 2014

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GBP 10,625

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A GEORGE III ARTIFICIAL 'COADE' STONE URN FINIAL
BY CROGGAN, DATED 1817
Surmounted by a domed fluted top, with cone terminal, above a fluted ovoid body, flanked to each side by a lion mask and to the front and back by a patera, joined by drapery swags, on a circular socle, on a square plinth inscribed 'CROGGAN 1817', losses and broken sections to the base
30 in. (76 cm.) high

Specialist note


The present lot corresponds to a design illustrated in Eleanor Coade's Etchings of Coade's Artificial Stone Manufactory, 1778. These fluted vases and the numerous variations on the same theme were amongst the most popular models from the factory. William Croggon ran the Coade factory from 1813 until Eleanor Coade's death in 1821. His most prominent commission was his work at Buckingham Palace between 1826-28.
A pair of stamped 'Coade Stone' finials without the lion masks were sold, The Michael Roberts Collection of Garden Ornaments, Christie's, Ashurst, Kent, 27 September 2004, lot 278 (£35,850, inc.) and another signed and dated 1795 was sold Christies, Dunsborough Park, 19-20 June 2013, lot 168, £13,000.