John Cannon and Brass-Inlaid Furniture, 1730-1760

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Amongst the most ostentatiously splendid masterpieces of English furniture are a group embellished with engraved brass inlay and rich ormolu mounts. Dating from about 1730-60, made of exotic timbers and many displaying highly flamboyant Rococo personalities, they have traditionally been attributed to the workshops of John Channon, one of Chippendale's neighbours and rivals in St Martin's Lane. However, new research indicates that there were at least five London cabinet makers specializing in brass-inlaid ...
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Amongst the most ostentatiously splendid masterpieces of English furniture are a group embellished with engraved brass inlay and rich ormolu mounts. Dating from about 1730-60, made of exotic timbers and many displaying highly flamboyant Rococo personalities, they have traditionally been attributed to the workshops of John Channon, one of Chippendale's neighbours and rivals in St Martin's Lane. However, new research indicates that there were at least five London cabinet makers specializing in brass-inlaid furniture at the time, and six leading furniture historians have combined forces with Christopher Gilbert and Tessa Murdoch to reinvestigate the whole question of authorship, and to look again at the origins of the phenomenon of brass-inlaid furniture. The contributors to this handsomely illustrated volume have discovered fresh information about the Channon family, and place English brass-inlaid furniture firmly within the context of French and German traditions. They trace continental design sources for decorative elements, illuminate the structure of the London cabinet-making trade, and identify and attribute different workshop groups to various previously shadowy firms, several of whom have German links. For the first time all recorded and traceable examples of English brass-inlaid furniture dating from the reign of George Il are discussed and illustrated with many examples in colour. Publication will coincide with an exhibition of brass-inlaid furniture by Channon and his circle at Temple Newsam House in Leeds, opening on 20 October 1993 and moving to the Victoria and Albert Museum on 16 February 1994, for which this book serves as the catalogue.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780300058123
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Publication date: 1/28/1994
  • Pages: 172
  • Product dimensions: 8.55 (w) x 10.77 (h) x 0.79 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface
1 Introduction 1
2 The Channon family of London and Exeter 5
3 Channon's rivals and the London market for brass-inlaid furniture 13
4 The continental context: Germany 24
5 The continental context: France 37
6 Furniture manufacture and workshop organisation 46
Trade practices 46
Woods 49
Other materials 51
Joints and construction 53
Inlaid brass and brass mounts 55
7 Furniture survey 59
Bureau-cabinets 59
Tables and desks 74
The 'nymph and satyr' group 86
Cabinets on stands 99
The Powderham bookcases 106
Pillar and claw tables 113
Tea-chests and dressing-boxes 121
Chairs 126
Miscellaneous furniture 131
8 Workshop groups 135
App. 1 The wills of John and Martha Channon 138
App. 2 Accounts, letters and inventories 140
App. 3 John Channon's fire-insurance policy 143
App. 4 The inlaid room at Mawley Hall 144
Notes 146
Select bibliography 152
Notes to the plates and figures 153
Index 162
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