For an excellent overview of the subject of the Egyptian Revival see
The Egyptian Revival by James Steven Curl. 2005
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had been superseded by a recognition that medicine began, not with the Greeks,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.
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The Buscot Park Coade Artificial Stone Figures of Antinous at Buscot Park.
James Steven Curll suggests on of these figures might have come from Thomas Hopes house at Duchess Street.
View of the Temple from Deepdene Gardens, 1909.
© Surrey History Centre.
Image from -
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The Pair of Coade Artificial Stone Thrones.
Indented Coade 1800 and Coade Lambeth 1800.
Previously wth dealer Edward Hurst.
https://www.edwardhurst.com/detail.html?sid=373
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.
Photographs taken by the Author at the London Masterpiece Fair.
The Parham Park Coade Stone Thrones.
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Household Furniture And Interior Decoration, Executed From
Designs By Thomas Hope.
Plate 19.
Printer Thomas Bensley.
Publisher - Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, London.
1807.
Neither the added engraved title-plate nor any of the
numbered plates carries the signature of draughtsman or engraver; but on p.13
of the Introduction the author names the engravers as Mr Aikin and Mr Dawe
(that is Edmund Aikin and George Dawe).
Each carries the imprint of the publishers, Longman, Hurst,
Rees, and Orme, and the date (1 May 1807).
This is thought to be the first work in English in which the
term 'interior decoration' was used. The text and plates describe furnishings
in ancient Greek and Roman style, and some in Egyptian, oriental and French
neoclassical styles, most of which had been designed for Hope's own house in
Duchess Street, London, where they complemented displays of ancient sculpture
and pottery. Hope's approach is sometimes fairly eclectic - plate 21, for
example, showing a Chinese vase mounted on a neoclassical stand. The
arrangement of his Duchess Street house was consciously intended to be didactic
and exemplary. Entrance tickets had first been issued in 1804, to the sixty
Royal Academicians.
The book was Hope's most influential work. It was imitated
in George Smith's Collection of designs for household furniture (1808) and
Richard Brown's The rudiments of drawing cabinet and upholstery furniture
(1820). The conclusion of Hope's 'Explanation' (p.51-3) is a 'list of the
different works ... which have been of most use to me', which includes Percier
and Fontaine's Recueil des décorations intérieurs (1801-).
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Egyptian Lioness from the Coade Catalogue 1784
Bibliotheque Nationale Paris.
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The Deepdene Lion.
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
Almost certainly supplied to Thomas Hope (d. 1831) in 1820
for the Deepdene, Dorking,
This was the second lioness supplied the first having to be replaced (reason unknown).
Purchased from the Deepdene in the 1960s by Peter
Hone.
Private Collection, 12 Broad Street, Boxford, Suffolk.
Acquired from Hilary Chelminski, London, September 2001.
