A Regency period mahogany bookcase
A Regency period mahogany bookcase
1481
A Regency period mahogany five tier bookcase.of graduated form, each tier supported by turned columns and with a panelled back, on the reverse with a stencilled inscription, 'From FREEMANS/MANUFACTORY/St. ANDREWS NORWICH'.
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840. Freeman, William, Norwich, cm (1811-39). William Freeman, cm was enrolled as a freeman of Norwich on 24 February 1811. He is recorded in the poll bk of 1812 at St Andrew's and that of 1830 in the parish of St Simon and St Jude. Robson's Directory, 1839 lists him as a general furniture maker and broker at St Andrews. A plain mahogany two door cupboard of approximately this date has been noted with 'From Freemans/MANUFACTORY/St. ANDREWS NORWICH' stencilled on the back (Fig. 17). William Hicklenton, cm, app. of William Freeman, was admitted a freeman of Norwich on 3 May 1818. [Moss's of Baldock, 125 Years of Cabinetmaking (Exhib. cat.) July 1984; Norwich freemen reg.]
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circa 1820
England
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. William Freeman, cm was enrolled as a freeman of Norwich on 24 February 1811. He is recorded in the poll bk of 1812 at St Andrew's and that of 1830 in the parish of St Simon and St Jude. Robson's Directory, 1839 lists him as a general furniture maker and broker at St Andrews. A plain mahogany two door cupboard of approximately this date has been noted with 'From Freemans/MANUFACTORY/St. ANDREWS NORWICH' stencilled on the back (Fig. 17). William Hicklenton, cm, app. of William Freeman, was admitted a freeman of Norwich on 3 May 1818. [Moss's of Baldock, 125 Years of Cabinetmaking (Exhib. cat.) July 1984; Norwich freemen reg.]){kind=link}