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

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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

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

來源

Bretton Hall, West Yorkshire.
Anonymous Sale, Christie's, London, 25 June 1987, lot 85.

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The chimney-piece is designed in the 1770s 'antique' manner with a festive faun and bacchante, standing on truncated-column pedestals and lifting veil-drapery to reveal an oval medallion displaying the arms of the Beaumont family on a palm-wreathed escutcheon. It was commissioned by Colonel Thomas Beaumont (d. 1829) for the dining-room of Bretton Hall, Yorkshire and formed part of the transformation of the room carried out under the direction of the York architect John Carr (d. 1807) (see Country Life 21 May 1938, p. 534). The basic pattern with a ewer-bearing faun and tazza-bearing bacchante was originally modelled by the sculptor John Bacon R. A. (d. 1799), who acted as manager of Mrs. Coade's manufactory. It featured as no. 514/5 in the catalogue of Coade's Lithodipyra or Artificial Stone Manufactory .. at Lambeth, London, 1778; and Bretton was included in a list of the firm's commissions drawn up in 1799. The chimney-piece and design are illustrated in A. Kelly, Mrs. Coade's Stone, Worcs. 1990, p. 190.