Chiswick House: Italian Garden Urn Reliefs (London, England) : North urn, detail, female figure, a Bacchante or Maenad

Creator:

Coade, Eleanor, 1732-1821

Published/Created:

c. 12 km west of central London in Chiswick, borough of Hounslow, London, England, United Kingdom
ca. 1769-1835

Date Depicted:

5/26/2007
1700 AD - 1799 AD

Materials:

Coade stone (ceramic artificial stone)

Notes:

From 1769 ‘Mrs’ Coade (adopting a courtesy title extended to unmarried women in business) manufactured a ceramic artificial stone at Lambeth in London. It so closely resembled a natural stone that ever since it has been mistaken for it; as a result the extent of her influential business has been greatly underestimated. It survives at more than 650 sites, and hundreds more examples of its use have been recorded. The Coade Artificial Stone Manufactory produced every kind of architectural detail: capitals, friezes, quoins, voussoirs; garden ornaments, including fountains, statues and vases. From 1771 the sculptor John Bacon (i) was employed as chief designer; other sculptors, such as John Flaxman and Thomas Banks, were later involved in occasional employment by Coade. These urns are covered with motifs and figures borrowed from Classical Greek art.

Topics:

Architecture -- Britain -- 18th century -- (YVRC)
Architecture -- Britain -- 19th century -- (YVRC)

Period/Style:

Eighteenth century
Neoclassical

Culture:

British

Accession Number:

1A2-E-L-CH-3-B11

Genre:

decorative arts

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Furnishings & Decorative Arts

Rights:

Copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc
The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.

Access Restrictions:

Yale Community Only

Digital:

decorative arts; mythology (Classical) carving ; casting ; fabrication attributes: ceramics furnishings; containers; vessels (containers); urns; visual works; sculpture (visual work); reliefs (sculptures); bas-reliefs (sculpture)

Source Creator:

Gilchrist, Scott

Source Title:

Archivision Module Four

Source Created:

2878 Chamonix, Montreal QC
Archivision, Inc.
5/26/2007

Source Note:

Purchase, Visual Resources Collection, May, 2011; photographer Scott Gilchrist

Yale Collection:

Visual Resources Collection

Digital Collection:

Visual Resources Collection

Local Record Number:

4152

OID:

10106182

PID:

digcoll:1791141