Catignou, James (1695)
Catignou, James
London?; sconce maker (fl. 1695)
Working with Nicholas Pic. Catignou supplied four pairs of glass sconces, four pairs of gilt double sockets etc. for £97 4s and a further three great sconces for £75 for Queen Mary’s apartments at Kensington Palace, c. 1695.
Sources: DEFM; Murdoch, ‘Jean, René and Thomas Pelletier, A Huguenot Family of Carvers and Gilders in England 1682-1726, Part II’, The Burlington Magazine (vol. 140).
The original entry from Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840 can be found at British History Online.