I first met Peter Hone when he came to see the Massive Pair of Cast Iron Gryphons from the Fonthill Estate which I purchased for Walcot Reclamation, of 108 Walct St Bath (with the able assistance of my apprentice John Robbins).
It was and still has been long and fruitful relationship.
Peter had just begun working for Clifton Little Venice, a venture set up at a shop in Warwick Place, by Jacob Rothschild as an adjunct to Clifton Nurseries in Little Venice, Maida Vale.
The idea being for Clifton Nurseries to be able to provide Antiques for the Garden alongside selling plants and a design service.
A Coade Stone model of an Hawk.
Thomas Dubbin dated 1836
Height 23 in. (58.5 cm.)
Lot 154 - 26 October 2016 from the Hone Collection sold by the late lamented Christie's South Ken.
The Design of this Corinthian capital 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.,
The plate dated 1778.
