Guillotin, —

next ‘The Black Lion’, Pall Mall, near St James's, London; upholder (fl.1691-1700)

Payments to Lord Dorset's Groom of the Chamber (Dorset was Master of the Great Wardrobe at this time) reveal that cartloads of palace furnishings, probably of Queen Mary's, were taken to Guillotin's shop after her death.

In May 1695, objects 'brought from ye Standing Wardrobe' (probably at Whitehall), were distributed by the Lord Chamberlain, Charles Sackville, the 6^th Earl of Dorset to Guillotin:

• ‘Crimson Damaske Carpet’
• Two Couches, their cushions and hangings of ‘Crimson, grene and white damask’
• ‘Blue Indian satin all fringd with  gould fringe’; together with cabinet furniture
• ‘1 Large Cabinet of an olive Colour’
• ‘2 Larg[e] Looking glasses’, one ‘Jappand and the other inlaide’
• ‘2 pare of Stands’
• 1 Large Clock a pendilum

These items were presumably sold or auctioned.

Sources: DEFM; Olivia Fryman, ‘Rich Pickings: The Royal Bed as a Perquisite 1660-1760’, Furniture History (2014); Christopher Rowell, 'Seventeenth-Century Furniture at Knole', Furniture History (2023), pp. 49-50.