From the set of ten originally made for the Gothic conservatory that Thomas Hopper (1776 - 1856) designed for Carlton House, the London residence of the George Prince Regent, later George IV (1762 - 1830).
The torchères each held brass lamps with six burners and originally stood on black marble plinths.
Ordered by the Prince Regent from Coade & Sealy for the cast iron Gothic Conservatory at Carlton House, and delivered on 9 February 1811.
The total cost for the set was £500. The bills in the Windsor archives show that the candelabra originally had black marble plinths, and held brass lamps with six burners each.
Alison Kelly writes of the decoration for the conservatory by Coade
and Sealy ‘In July of 1810. Some Statues were ready, “2 statues of ancient
Kings and 2 do. Of Bishops and 1 statue of a Pilgrim for niches in the
Conservatory.” They…seem reasonable at £96.12s.0d.
Demolished in 1827, the magnificent interior of the conservatory survives through illustrations and written accounts which include descriptions of the other Coade stone works it contained, depicting kings, bishops and a pilgrim as well as a central fountain with eight dragons.
Following the demolition of Carlton House in 1827, they were installed in the coffee room at Windsor Castle in 1827, eight of the ten were gilded, and they were all fitted with new oil lamps.
Of the ten original candelabra, six went to Leeds Castle following their purchase at Christie’s on 19 November 1970.
The torchères each held brass lamps with six burners and originally stood on black marble plinths.
One was sold at Christie’s in 1989, and bought for the
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff.’ (Item number NMW A 30042).
The Victoria and Albert Museum Coade Candelabra.
Very poor resolution photographs fro the website
I will attempt to obtain some better images in due courdr.
Bought from Christopher Gibbs, Ltd., for £1.500, by the Central Fund, in 1980.
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O8857/candelabrum-candelabrum-hopper-thomas/#object-details
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The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Gothic Candelabra.
Sold to the Fitzwilliam by Thomas Coulborn & Sons
Provenance - Collection of Sir Robert Gordon Cooke MP, Athelhampton
House, Dorset.
All the images below from the website of Thomas Coulborn and Sons
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The National Museum of Wales Coade Candelabra.
very poor snaps from -
https://museum.wales/collections/online/?field0=string&value0=Coade&field1=with_images&value1=1
Without confirmation - I believe this was the version purchased at Bonhams Lots Road Saleroom by Peter Hone from the residue of the collection of Sylva Adams in 1996
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Pyne, W. H. Royal Residences, London, 1818, plates I, II.
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Literature.
W.H. Pyne, Royal Residences, London, 1818, plates I, II
One of the torchères is illustrated in Geoffrey de Bellaigue
and Pat Kirkham, ‘George IV and the Furnishing of Windsor Castle’ in Furniture
History: The Journal of the Furniture History Society, Volume VIII, 1972,
p.1-34, pl.13B.
Alison Kelly, Mrs Coade’s Stone, Upton-upon-Severn, 1990,
illustrated p.220
The Queen’s Gallery Carlton House: The Past Glories of
George IV’s Palace, London, 1991, p.225, illus. back cover Buckingham Palace
Exhibition Catalogue
Diane Bilbey and Marjorie Trusted, British Sculpture 1470-
2000. A Concise Catalogue of the Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum,
London: V&A 2002, p. 307, cat. no. 471
Celina Fox (ed.), London – World City, 1800-1840, New Haven:
Yale University Press, 1992 no. 279
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of Tangential Interest.
Pair of Coade stone Gothic Finials.
Sold recently by Arabesque Antiques
Pinnacles H 79 1/2" x W 23" x D 23" Stone Pedestals H 12" x W 17" x D 17'
signed and dated 'Coade London 1819'.
Decorated on all four sides with crockets and portrait
heads, both terminating in large poppy finials, in very good condition and
standing on matched composition stone pedestals.
https://www.arabesqueantiques.co.uk/artworks/9552-pair-of-very-large-coade-stone-gothic-pinnacles/
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