From the set of ten originally made for the Gothic conservatory that Thomas Hopper (1776 - 1856) designed for Carlton House, the London residence of the George Prince Regent, later George IV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
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There was the version purchased at Bonham's London, Lots Road Saleroom by Peter Hone from the residue of the collection of Sylvia Adams in 1996.
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Pyne, W. H. Royal Residences, London, 1818, plates I, II.
Alison Kelly notes
Michael Grove, Sussex - signerd dated 1816 - two rich Gothic Candelabra £81 16s 4d.
Coleorton Hall, Ashby de la Zouche signed and dated 1817 - £35 16s 1d - a rich Gothic Candlestick
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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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A letter with sketch from Sealy to John Soane - January 1790.
Ornamental Stone Manufy/Lambeth 12 Jany 1790/Mr Sealys Compts - find herewith a/Cast from one of the Gothic niches at St George’s Chapel/Windsor for Mr Soane’s acceptance.
https://collections.soane.org/THES80437
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Soane Museum Drawing for -
Bramley, Hampshire: St James' Church, new chapel for Mrs Brocas, 1801-3.
Copy of drawing [4]. The tracery was made by Coade and
Sealy.
labelled: Iron bar, 1st, 2nd, A, B, 1, 2, 3, 4, A, B, (in
Soane's hand) Mem April 28 / 1802 The whole of the Windows, Imposts / Cill
completely fixed in every / respect with Cramps & Iron / bars & running
with Lead, every / thing complete, exclusion of the Carriage only for One
hundred Guineas To be completed in 3 months from this 27 April 1802 / Coade
& Sealy, (pencil) Abt 100 Ges exclusive of Carriage / --- ---- ------
------ (illegible) and some dimensions given; (verso, pencil): Mrs Brocas
https://collections.soane.org/THES100888
Another Soane drawing St James' Church, Bramley, Hampshire: new chapel for Mrs Brocas, 1801-3.
Inscribed Mrs Brocas, (in Soane's hand) At Bramley June 11 1803 / Saturday, June 10 1803 / Recd on Acct £50 / for the Coade / ---- ---- (illegible), an illegible note at bottom left and dimensions given
Signed and dated Lincolns Inn Fields 14 April 1802.
https://collections.soane.org/THES100886
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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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Coade and Sealy in All Saints Church at Coleshill, Oxfordshire.
The N. wall of the sanctuary is filled from floor to ceiling
by a massive, triple-arched structure (left and below right), supported on
slender octagonal columns.
This monument commemorates Mark Stewart Pleydell (d. 1768) and his wife, who predeceased him by twenty-one years. All three arches are crocketed, cusped and ogee-pointed, with the much wider central arch being double-cusped (trefoil-cusping inside septfoil-cusping!).
http://www.english-church-architecture.net/oxfordshire/coleshill/coleshill.htm
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Jack Fuller's first venture into folly building was the
Coade stone summerhouse erected in 1803. It is located in the woods on the west
side of Brightling Park. East Sussex.
Indented Coade and Sealey London inside the arch
https://johnmadjackfuller.homestead.com/summerhouse.html
Dimensions: Height: 46.46 in (118 cm) Width: 11.03 in (28
cm) Depth: 11.03 in (28 cm).
This pinnacle would look a lot better if the paint were removed.
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Gothic Gateway St Mary's Church at Tremadog. Gwynedd, Wales.
https://www.cbsconservation.co.uk/projects/st_marys_tremadog_gwynedd/
