The Borghese Vase
Coade
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
circa 1771
Materials
Coade stone on sandstone plinth
Measurements
1240 mm (H); 1180 mm (H); 760 mm (W); 900 mm (D); 760 mm (D)
Place of origin
Lambeth
Order this imageCollection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 109017.1
Summary
Coade stone on sandstone plinth, the Borghese Vase, Coade's Artificial Stone Manufactory Co. (1769 - 1840), after the antique, c. 1771, stamped 'COADE | LONDON' (rear, between feet of dancer with tambourine and draped male with thyrsus). One of a pair of artificial stone reproductions of the Borghese and Medici Vases (see NT 109017.2). A bell-shaped krater with gadrooned everted lip, moulded with bas-reliefs of a vine motif and frieze depicting the thiasus: a Bacchanalian procession presided over by Dionysus and his wife Ariadne. The lower section is gadrooned with paired mascarons shaped as satyrs’ heads. The vase is mounted on a tapering fluted stem and square plinth. Mounted on a sandstone plinth. The antique Borghese and Medici Vases are monumental bell-shaped krater sculpted from Pentellic marble in Athens in the second half of the 1st century BC. They are housed in the Louvre, Paris, and the Uffizi, Florence (respectively). For a detailed discussion of each vase see Haskell and Penny 1981, pp. 315-6, nos. 81-2.
Provenance
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).
Credit line
Kedleston Hall, The Scarsdale Collection (acquired with the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and transferred to The National Trust in 1987)
Marks and inscriptions
Rear: COADE | LONDON
Makers and roles
Coade, sculptor
References
Haskell and Penny 1981: Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique, The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500 - 1900, New Haven and London, 1981, p. 315, no. 81. Gunnis 1968: Rupert Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851, London 1968, p. 304. Kelly 1990: Alison Kelly, Mrs Coade's stone, Upton-upon-Severn 1990, pp. 33, 37-8, 41, 169, 189, 200. Valpy 1986: Nancy Valpy, ‘Advertisements for Artificial Stone in the Daily Advertiser’, English Ceramic Circle Transactions, vol. 12, no. 3 (1986) pp. 206-226, pp. 209-216, 220-22.