Lot Essay
A Corinthian capital of this design is illustrated in Coade's A Descriptive Catalogue of Coade's Artificial Stone Manufactory, Section XXVII Pieces of Furniture and Various Ornaments, 1784, p. 8, no. 179., and also features in Alison Kelly, Mrs Coade's Stone, Upton-upon-Severn, 1990, p. 153.