Chiswick House: Italian Garden Urn Reliefs

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Title	Chiswick House: Italian Garden Urn Reliefs
View	South urn, detail, male figure leaning on staff
Work Type	furnishings containers vessels (containers) urns visual works sculpture (visual work) reliefs (sculptures) bas-reliefs (sculpture)
Style/Period	Eighteenth century Neoclassical
Creator Name	Coade, Eleanor, 1733-1821
Creator Nationality	British
Subject.work	decorative arts mythology (Classical)
Subject.image	nudes staff chiton cloak
Country	United Kingdom
City	London
State/Province	England
Location.Notes	c. 12 km west of central London in Chiswick, in the Greater London borough of Hounslow.
Architectural Material	Coade stone (ceramic artificial stone)
Technique	carving (processes); casting (process); fabrication attributes: ceramics
Dates	ca. 1769-1835 (creation)
Photographer	Gilchrist, Scott
Date Photographed	5/26/2007
Subject Information	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.
Information.source	Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/
Credit Line	copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Collection Title	Archivision (architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes and public art); Archivision (architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes and public art)
Collection information	Collection administered by the Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library, (402) 472-1193

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