Beschreibung:

A Coadestone armorial lion
late 18th/early 19th century damages 60cm.; 24ins high by 60cm.; 24ins wide This almost certainly originally formed the left hand section of a Royal Armorial,. These were in great demand in Georgian times for businesses which had received a Royal Warrant to supply some commodity or service. Such firms were and still are, entitled to display the Royal Arms on their premises. These are usually painted today, but in the reigns of George III and George IV, Coade stone offered an attractive and suitably architectural alternative. Eleanor Coade (d.1821) opened her Lambeth Manufactory for ceramic artificial stone in 1769, and appointed the sculptor John Bacon as its manager two years later. She was employed by all the leading late 18th Century architects. From about 1777 she began her engraved designs, which were published in 1784 in a catalogue of over 700 items entitled A Descriptive Catalogue of Coade~s Artificial Stone Manufactory. Then in 1799, the year she entered into partnership with her cousin John Sealy she issued a handbook of her Pedlar~s Lane exhibition Gallery. The firm became Coade and Sealey from this date and following Sealey~s death in 1813, it reverted to Coade and in 1821 with the death of the younger Eleanor Coade control of the firm passed to William Croggan, who died in 1835, following bankruptcy. Coade~s manufactures resembling a fine-grained natural stone, have always been famed for their durablity Literature: See Mrs Coade~s Stone, Alison Kelly, SPA 1990, pp273-5