Image below Bibliotheque Nationale Paris
Image below Yale Centre for British Art.
Sculpture, Painting, Architecture and Geometry.
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The Four Coade Artificial Stone reliefs.
Navigation, Commerce, Arts and Crafts and Agriculture.
Bank of Montreal
Main Montreal Branch - Montreal, Canada.
On the wall of the passageway linking the Montreal Main
Branch and Head Office buildings are four terra cotta bas-reliefs symbolizing
Agriculture, Navigation, Arts and Crafts, and Commerce. These panels graced the
façade of the Bank’s first building, constructed at the corner of Saint
François Xavier and Saint Jacques Streets in 1819 and demolished to make way
for a post office in 1876.
Images courtesy Wikpaedia.
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Cotswold Auction Company 17th October 2023.
The pieces are signed and dated “Coade’s Lithodipyra, London 1787”,
85cm high x 114cm wide x 10cm deep
Provenance: The reliefs came from the gatehouse of the Apsley Estate, Hurstbourne Priors, Andover . The gatehouse was known as Cocalaurum. The house was built in the late 1700s and is grade II listed. The reliefs were salvaged and reclaimed by the current owner in the 1970s when the gatehouse was demolished
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