RETAILED BY EDWARD HOLMES BALDOCK

The English marchand-mercier Edward Holmes Baldock (d.1854), Purveyor of China, Earthenware and Glass to William IV' (1832-7) and 'Purveyor of China to Queen Victoria' (1838-45), was both a retailer and manufacturer of furniture and objets de luxe in the French taste. Established in Hanway Street, London, he employed the brand 'E.H.B.' on both antique pieces, particularly Boulle and Louis XV marquetry furniture, as well as on his own furniture inspired by earlier French prototypes that were executed on the premises. Remarkably, Baldock was responsible for the formation of many of the greatest early 19th Century collections of French furniture, including those of George IV, the Dukes of Buccleuch and Northumberland, William Beckford and George Byng, M.P..