Coade Chimneypieces.

 

The  Capesthorne, Cheshire Coade Artificial Stone Chimneypiece.

Indented COADE LONDON 1790.

Shelf width - 2254 mm -  88 ¾ in.

The subject matter would suggest that it was originally in a family chapel.

After a fire and rebuilding, the fireplace was taken to Capesthorne in the 1860s from the family's house in Belgrave Square. 

The building of Belgrave Square post-dates the fireplace by about 40 years and so it is quite possible that this fireplace was in the original Georgian Capesthorne. 

The frieze with classical figures to centre, the end blockings with finely cast dove. 

The jambs with classical figures and winged Putti masks and drapery below. The shelf with Lion's masks, egg and dart moulding and stiff acanthus leaves. The plinth block indented with "Coade, London. 1790".

Previously with Chelminski Gallery, Kings Road, London.

https://www.thornhillgalleries.co.uk/item/stock-number-2613/

notes - 

The chapel at Capesthorne was built in 1722 to a design by John Ward and restored in 1886–88 by Mrs Augusta Bromley Davenport. 

 

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Page from the 1784 Coade Catalogue.

1784 Catalogue No. 514.

A Marble version of this Chimneypiece is at Goodwood House.

This image from the Catalogue at the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.

The Bretton Hall Chimneypiece.

Modelled by John Bacon I. 

 102in. (259½cm.) wide; 74in. (185cm.) high; 9in. (22.5cm) deep

Christie's - Clifton Little Venice Sale - 6 June 1994 Lot 188.

A GEORGE III COADE STONE CHIMNEY-PIECE, the moulded shelf edged with drapery swags, the frieze with raised oval centred by a laurel-framed shield with the arms of Beaumont and Wentworth surrounded by swaggged drapery held by a faun and baccante, the fireplace opening edged with entrelac-and-rosette, signed COADE 1796 LONDON (damages to shelf), late 18th Century

Provenance - Bretton Hall, West Yorkshire.

Previously an anonymous Sale, Christie's, London, 25 June 1987, lot 85.

The Tablet is indented Coade Lambeth 1796

The Coade Chimneypiece in the Breakfast Room at Bretton Hall.

One room on the west side of the house has an original plaster ceiling, and the room to its north has a siena-and-white marble chimneypiece with a pastoral scene by William Collins, c.1761. Is it still there? Why and when was the Coade chimneypiece removed?

The rooms east and west of the staircase have later coved ceilings and dainty Adamesque decoration, and there is compelling evidence that at least the east one (the dining room in the 18th century but now called the breakfast room) was altered by John Carr in 1793 - 94.

 Its rich plasterwork is very similar to that at Farnley Hall (Yorks WR) and has monochrome medallions like those at Farnley painted by Theodore de Bruyn.

Image from Country Life 1938.

https://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2022/07/519-beaumont-of-bretton-hall-and-bywell.html

The current house was built around 1720 by Sir William Wentworth, assisted by the architect, Colonel James Moyser. Famously the contents of the Henry VIII parlour would be incorporated into the new house.

 In 1792 Bretton Hall passed over to the Beaumont family.

 There began a period of improvement and expansion for the house. In 1793 the library and dining room would be remodelled by John Carr with a new wing built by Sir Jeffrey Wyattville between 1811 and 1814.

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4 Elements from a Coade Chimneypiece.

Indented COADE LAMBETH DEL 1786.

From the Peter Hone sale by Lays lot 148 12 Oct. 2023

Bought from Messrs Jamb - sourced by them in the USA.

https://www.davidlay.co.uk/auction/lot/lot-148---eleanor-coade-1733--1821/?lot=116667&sd=1