IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 312628 accession number: C.6-2023 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 9 May 2023 updated: Tuesday 5 November 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Torchère, coade stone (artificial stone), cast, the top depicting owls with wings outstretched; the stem with architectural motifs of revived gothic arches, the base with dragons with intertwining necks, their wings outspread, behind which are trapped smaller people and animals. Beneath are blank shields in decorative cartouches. Inscribed, '‘COADE & SEALY LAMBETH 1810’ title: torchère (stand) NOTES ----- type: history note value: Supplied to George, Prince of Wales (later King George IV) for Carlton House, Pall Mall; removed to the Coffee Room at Windsor Castle in 1827; sold during the reign of King George V (1910-36); collection of Sir Robert Gordon Cooke MP, Athelhampton House, Dorset; sold Duke’s auctioneers, Athelhampton House – An Auction on the Premises, 19 October 2019, lot 102; bought Thomas Coulborn & Sons, from whom purchased by the Fitzwilliam Museum LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bought with the Granville Elliot Legacy Fund, 2023 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/312628 PEOPLE ------------------- George, Prince of Wales SUBJECTS ------------------- lighting TECHNIQUES ---------- cast (process) CATEGORIES ------ category: furniture category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1810 - 1810 creation date earliest: 1810 creation date latest: 1810 culture: 19th Century, Early culture: Regency CREATORS -------- maker: Coade and Sealy maker: Coade, Eleanor maker: Sealy, John maker: Hopper, Thomas DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 45 dimension: Height units: cm value: 210 dimension: Width units: cm value: 45 CITATIONS -------- Eleanor Coade and her Artificial Stone Mrs Coade's Stone Mrs Coade's Stone ---