IDENTIFIERS
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id:	312628
accession number:	C.6-2023

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Tuesday 9 May 2023
updated:	Friday 12 January 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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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
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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
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Bought with the Granville Elliot Legacy Fund, 2023

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/312628





TECHNIQUES
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cast (process)

CATEGORIES
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category: furniture
category: sculpture

DATING
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creation date:	1810 - 1810
creation date earliest:	1810
creation date latest:	1810
culture:	19th Century
culture:	Regency

CREATORS
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maker: Coade and Sealy
maker: Coade, Eleanor
maker: Sealy, John
maker: Hopper, Thomas

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 45

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 210

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 45