https://archive.org/stream/TheEgyptianRevival/The%20Egyptian%20Revival_djvu.txt
Coade Stone panel in the meeting-room of The Medical Society of London,
11 Chandos Street, Cavendish Square, London. It
was originally in the Society’s premises at Bolt Court, Fleet Street, and is
marked ‘COADE LITHODIPYRA 1787 \ The (unfortunately damaged) figure of
Isis-Hygeia stands on a severe block embellished with an inscription in Greek
framed by an ouroboros and flanked by sphinxes. Behind the goddess is a pyramid
of the Cestius type. The palm-tree underlines the Nilotic connection. Behind
the sphinx on the left is a toppled broken Ionic column, suggesting that
received wisdom (holding that the history of medicine began with the Creeks)
had been superseded by a recognition that medicine began, not with the Greeks,
but with the Egyptians.
View of the Temple from Deepdene Gardens, 1909.
© Surrey History Centre.
Image from -
Both signed on the side of the footrest, one is stamped 'Coade 1800', the other stamped ‘Coade Lambeth 1800’, designed by Thomas Hope (1769-1831) produced by Coade in 1800.
The finials replaced by Messrs Coade Ltd of Wilton in
2021.
Provenance: These thrones were designed by Thomas Hope for his house in Duchess Street.
Four can be seen in the picture gallery published
in his book Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807, Plate 2. The
design illustrated in plate 19, fig 6 & 7.
These four thrones moved to Hope’s country house at Deepdene during the 19th century and were sold at the Humbert and Flint six day Deepdene sale in September 1917.
They were sold in two lots; Lot 1061 – A pair of three
foot fine Lambeth stone chairs with square seats and winged spinx arms, and Lot
1188 – Pair of fine Lambeth stone chairs, with square seats and winged spinx
arms and slab footrests.
Two of the four currently in situ at Parnham House, Sussex,
see fig.4-16. in Thomas Hope Regency Designer by Phillip Hewett-Jaboor.
This current pair have remained unrecorded since the sale in
1917 and have recently been rediscovered.
Thomas Hope.
Plate 19.
Printer Thomas Bensley.
Publisher Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme,, London
1807
On a moulded plinth, the front impressed 'COADE LONDON 1819'
26 ½ in. (67.5 cm.) high; 15 ½ in. (39.5 cm.) wide; 48 ¾ in.
(124 cm.) deep
Provenance
(A second lioness was supplied in 1820).
Purchased from the Deepdene in the 1960s by Peter
Hone.
Private Collection, 12 Broad Street, Boxford, Suffolk.
Acquired from Hilary Chelminski, London, September 2001.
Photograph of 1965 (Historic Buildings and Antiquities of
Surrey, CC1101/3/53/189, reproduced without the
permission of Surrey History Centre).
https://architecturalhistoryjournal.com/articles/10.5334/arh.32#F21
No comments:
Post a Comment