LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY, RETAILED BY T. WILSON

Thomas Wilson of 68 Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields was both a cabinet-maker and a dealer in second-hand furniture, who is recorded in directories between 1821 and 1829. Many pieces of 18th Century furniture with his stamp are recorded, including a mahogany chest of drawers sold Christie's London, 26 February 1970, lot 91. The discovery of Wilson's label describing himself as a 'Cabinet Maker, Upholsterer' of 'Every Article of Furniture for the Drawing, Dining, Bed Room and Library, of first-class make' suggests that the firm's name-stamped furniture can be divided into two catagories: second-hand pieces which were merely retailed and items made in their own workshops for sale (C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, pp.56, 483 and 485, figs. 989 and 996).