The Chimneypiece with Caryatids
from Moor Park. Hertfordshire.
at the Lady Lever Art Gallery
Port Sunlight, Wirral.
With some random notes and images on the subject of Caryatid Chimneypieces.
The illustrations are in no particular order - these notes are intended as a brief survey.
The Frieze which is inlaid with Lapiz Lazuli was bought in Italy and was modelled on the ancient Borghese Relief which now in the Louvre.
Perhaps designed by Robert Adam
The illustrations are in no particular order - these notes are intended as a brief survey.
The Frieze which is inlaid with Lapiz Lazuli was bought in Italy and was modelled on the ancient Borghese Relief which now in the Louvre.
Perhaps designed by Robert Adam
The Borghese Relief
Now in the Louvre
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For Dundas see -
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Marble
C. 1735/40.
Gift of The Hearst Foundation, 1956
Metropolitan Museum
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Metropolitan Museum, New York
Chippendale
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Drawing pasted in to bound copy of Isaac Taylor II's (probably),
'Designs for Chimney-Pieces with Mouldings & Bases at Large', London c.
1794 - 1800.
image courtesy V and A.
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Design for a Chimneypiece
From a book of designs with antiquarian book dealer Bernard Quaritch.
Chimneypiece originally made for Fonthill Splendens.
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The Chesterfield House Chimneypiece.
Attributed to John Michael Rysbrack (Flemish, Antwerp
1694–1770 London).
Date: 1745–50
190.5 × 299.7 cm)
Gift of The Hearst Foundation, 1956
Metropolitan Museum New York
https://www.metmuseum.org/pubs/bulletins/1/pdf/3257980.pdf.bannered.pdf
Design for Chesterfield House
Plate 88.
'The publication-date of 1756 is carried by the title page;
but the work was published serially between 29 November 1755 and 3 September
1757. It formed part of a new series of publications being brought out by
Osborne and Shipton (who had earlier published Ware's translation of
Sirigatti's Pratica di prospettiva). Their Complete Body of Husbandry was
already in publication and would be followed by their A Complete Body of
Gardening.
Ware takes the scope of the project to embrace not only architectural
design but also the practicalities of engineering - including, for example, a
double plate to illustrate the drainage of a house (pl. '30.31').
As was usual
in his time, he tends to combine Palladian exteriors (though, he says, neither
Vitruvius nor Palladio should be taken as an infallible guide) with more
decorative, rococo interiors.
The text is divided into ten books: 1. on terms
and materials; 2. on location, functional parts of a building, the orders; 3.
house construction; 4. doors; 5. windows; 6. interior ornament; 7. exterior
ornament and garden buildings; 8. bridges; 9. the construction of elevations on
true principles (with some criticism of modern practice); 10. mathematics and
mensuration.
The plates include some of Ware's own designs - rococo interiors
of Chesterfield House (demolished in 1937)(pl. 60-61, 81-83, 85, 88); Amisfield
House (pl.39, 45), Clifton Hill (pl. 40), Oxford Town Hall (pl.48-9), Wrotham
Park (pl. 52-53), Eythrop House (pl. 104-105, 107), and several chimneypieces.
The frontispiece shows Minerva directing an architect and builders. The
title-page vignette shows the Pantheon, Rome, and the headpiece of the first
page of the text shows an aqueduct.
A few plates are captioned as showing work
of Inigo Jones; but these are not now thought to be by him.'
Image and text from:
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O973189/a-complete-body-of-architecture-print-ware-isaac/
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Height: 152 cm, Height: 120 cm figures head to foot, Width:
231.5 cm
Given to the V and A by the General Electricity Company.
It was formerly at
Scarcroft Lodge, Wetherby Road, Scarcroft, near Leeds, which became the office
of the Yorkshire Electricity Board; it was probably originally in another
house.
Historical significance: The shelf is supported at either
side by a female figure; these are identical in design with two figures on a
marble chimneypiece in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, just that
those are about 10,5 inches taller than A.140-1956. This suggests that the two
chimneypieces come from the same workshop, and could even may have been made
for the same house. The New York piece comes from Chesterfield House in
Mayfair. Chesterfield House was sold in 1869, and a few pieces, as well as the
New York chimneypiece were removed beforehand and transferred to Bretby, the
country seat of the earls of Chesterfield in Derbyshire. It might be possible
that the present piece was also among those objects.
The architect of Chesterfield House was Isaac Ware (d.
1766).
Chimneypiece, marble, from Scarcroft Lodge, possibly
originally from Chesterfield House, South Audley Street, Mayfair, possibly from
a design by Isaac Ware, Britain, ca. 1748-50
The shelf is supported at either side by a female figure;
these are identical in design with two figures on a marble chimneypiece in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, just that those are about 10,5 inches
taller
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O310526/chimneypiece-from-scarcroft-lodge-possibly-chimneypiece-unknown/
From A Complete Body of Architecture, Isaac Ware.
1756
Victoria and Albert Museum.
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O967519/a-complete-body-of-architecture-print-ware-isaac/
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Design for a Chimneypiece
George Evans
1762
Victoria and Albert Museum
Design for a Chimneypiece
Michael Rysbrack
Victoria and Albert Museum
A design for a Caryatick Chineypiece and 5 Further Designs
Michael Rysbrack
Victoria and Albert Museum
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O607586/design-rysbrack-john-michael/
A design for a Caryatick Chimneypiece.
Michael Rysbrack
Victoria and Albert Museum
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O607589/design-rysbrack-john-michael/
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Persians and Caryatids
From William Chambers Treatise 1759
Engraved by Grignion after Cipriani
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Design for a Chimney Piece in the Gallery, now Dining Room,
Harewood House, Yorkshire (Elevation),ca. 1769.
26.5 x 35.4 cms.
c. 1769.
Office of Robert Adam
Image courtesy The Metropolitan Museum, New York.
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Chimneypiece by James Lovell
With stucco relief by Vassalli
Hagley Hall
The Hall
Scamozzi
From Dell'idea della architettura universale
by Scamozzi, Vincenzo, 1552-1616; Via, Alessandro dalla, fl.
1688-1724.
This edition 1714
https://archive.org/details/dellideadellaarc00scam/page/166
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Chimneypiece
Carved Pine and Limewood.
c. 1760.
Formerly in Carrington House, Whitehall, Westminster.
Height: 170 cm, Width: 244 cm, Depth: 35 cm, Height: 10 cm
Cornice, Width: 57 cm Cornice, Depth: 11 cm Cornice
Bought for £87.
Victoria and Albert Museum
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Two Designs for Chimneypieces for Kedleston
Robert Adam
Dated 1760
Images above courtesy Soane Museum
Robert Adam
Dated 1760
Images above courtesy Soane Museum
Coade Stone Chimneypiece
Attributed to John Bacon.
From Capesthorne Hall.
1790.
Currently on sale with Thornhill Galleries
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Coade Stone Chimneypiece.
Octagon House, Washington. USA.
For John Tayloe
1799.
For many more photographs of Octagon House see:
There is a second less elaborate Coade Stone fire surround in Octagon House
Here is a photograph lifted from the excellent blog post above.
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Rysbrack
For William Kent
Houghton, Norfolk.
Engraving from Isaac Ware
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Croome Court.
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Goodwood
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Design for Mantle for Goodwood
Joseph Wilton
Yale Centre for British Art
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Hatchlands.
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Le Pautre
Late 17th Century
Victoria and Albert Museum
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