Pair of Coade stone, moulded relief panels, titled “Agricult...

Hammer

£29,500

Pair of Coade stone, moulded relief panels, titled “Agriculture” and “Navigation” based on designs by John Bacon (1740-1799), possibly moulded by Joseph Panzetta and Thomas Dubbin, by Eleanor Coade, who ran Coade’s Artificial Stone Manufactory, Coade and Sealy, and Coade in Lambeth, London, from 1769 until 1833.  The pieces are signed and dated “Coade’s Lithodipyra, London 1787”, 85cm high x 114cm wide x 10cm deep (plus reliefs) (2)

Provenance

The reliefs came from the gatehouse of the Apsley Estate, Hurstbourne Priors, Andover . The gatehouse was known as Cocalaurum. The house was built in the late 1700s and is grade II listed.  The reliefs were salvaged and reclaimed by the current owner in the 1970s when the gatehouse was demolished.

Further examples were used at the Bank of Montreal, Canada.