Hestia wears a band carrying the legend: "Ignea vis" (‘the power of fire’) and above the kiln in the background "nec edax abolere vetustas" (from Book XV of Ovid's "Metamorphoses"
with the figures of Time and Fire in the foreground.
'And now my work is finished, which neither the anger of Jove, nor fire nor sword nor the passing years shall devour’).
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The Bibliothique Nationale Coade Catalogue engraving used as a frontispiece for the engravings section of the Catalogue.
John Taskers Book.
Coade and Sealy.
A Later Trade Card (post 1799) printed after the
Establishment of the Coade Gallery in Westminster Bridge Road, Lambeth.
Image from the British Museum
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