Footnotes

• Various urns made by Mark Blanchard (d.1870) incorporate entwined snake handles, including a pair with Medusa masks which were sold as lot 101 in a Christie's auction in Little Venice on 6th June 1994, along with a pair of urns attributed to Blanchard which sold as lot 300 in The Michael Roberts Collection at Christie's on 27th September 2004.
  
  Following a period of training under Messrs. Coade and Sealy, Blanchard started up his own terracotta and stone manufacturing business on the Lambeth Road in 1839. It is probable that Blanchard bought numerous Coade moulds in an 1843 sale, and the influence of Coade is perhaps most evident in Blanchard's earlier works which have a similar buff hue to Coade's pieces. However, in order to adapt to the changing tastes of the Victorians, terracotta became the increasingly dominant material used by Blanchard as the century progressed.
  
  By the mid 19th century, Blanchard had become arguably the most important terracotta manufacturer in Britain, mainly due to the Victorian's revived use of terracotta for both architecture and garden ornament. Excellent examples of Blanchard's work can be seen at Buckingham Palace, and he was rewarded with prizes for his exhibit at the 1851 Great Exhibition.

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