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This stocky creature, maned like Harpo Marx, and cast at the Artificial Stone Manufactory operated by Eleanor Coade at Narrow Wall, Lambeth, was produced for the Lion brewery.
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The old gods creep across London's Georgian terraces, pagan masks on keystones; sea gods and river gods produced in multiple versions by Coade.
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In this process is a powerful metaphor; rather than sweeping the board clear, the Coade bestiary reinvented itself as a marriage of earlier prototypes with the base clay of the Thames valley.
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There were also coins from the time of William IV and the traditional green bottle, in which was an advertisement for the firm of Coade.
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Some monuments are being listed on their own merits rather than for their occupants; Henry Hunter, a Presbyterian minister and translator, earns a listing for his imposing 1801 obelisk, made of artificial Coade stone, while Eleanor Coade, inventor of the stone, is buried nearby.
Burial ground of Bunyan, Defoe and Blake earns protected status 2011
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The Coade stone formula blended china clay with ground "grog" in an alchemical recipe the manufacturers tried to keep secret.
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Several examples of its most exquisite needlework covered Georgian seat-furniture, as well as the drawing room's festooned and tassel-fringed curtains and the swimming pool's Coade stone neo-Classical urns, survive at the Delawanna today.
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Coade_ he played very engagingly the part of the only character who had made such good use of his First
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 24, 1917 Various
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Coade_ wanted nothing better than to remain attached to so adorable a creature as his wife, played with a delightful homeliness by Miss MAUDE MILLETT, who has lost nothing of that charm to which, with _Mr.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 24, 1917 Various
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Lover of Truth, 1746, the lay author (one Coade, I believe), inveighing against high churchmen, reminds the preacher that he --
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