ABSTRACT Detailed analyses of the artificial, high‐fired ceramic Coade stone, used for the manufacture of architectural and garden artefacts in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, have been undertaken on samples from perfect and damaged specimens. The analyses were undertaken using SEM/EDAXS and groupings were studied using multivariate analysis of the elemental oxide data. The work differentiates samples not composed of Coade stone, and these data provide a sound basis for the analytical characterisation of high‐fired artificial stone composites from this period.
Brooke et al. (Tue,) studied this question.