The Audley End Coade Artificial Stone Pedestal.
Measurements H 59 x W 52 x D 52 cm; Plinth: H 103 x W 50.6 x D 50.6 cm
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The Pedestal formerly with Arabesque Antiques.
Wednesday, 28 October 2026
The Coade Artificial Stone Medici and Borghese Vases - some Notes and Images
Borghese Vase at Blaise Castle Hamlet, Bristol.
Indented: Coade & Sealy. London. 1806.
Image here from the artuk website.
One should be thankful for small mercies but despite posting fourteen images annoyingly none of them show the indented mark.
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The Coade Vases at Kedleston.
A pair of monumental bell-shaped krater with gadrooned
everted lips, carved with bas-reliefs. The Borghese Vase is moulded with a vine
motif and a relief depicting the thiasus: a Bacchanalian procession presided
over by Dionysus and his wife Ariadne.
The Medici Vase is moulded with a vine motif and a relief
believed to show the story of Iphigenia. The vase is mounted on a tapering
fluted stem and a square plinth. The Borghese Vase is stamped 'COADE | LONDON',
the Medici Vase 'COADE, LONDON. | Fecit'.
Purchased by Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale (1726-1804) from Coade's Artificial Stone Manufactory, c. 1771;
purchased with
part of the contents of Kedleston with the aid of the National Heritage
Memorial Fund in 1987 when the house and park were given to the National Trust
by Francis Curzon, 3rd Viscount Scarsdale (1924-2000).
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