Jones, William (1851)
Jones, William
Dolgellau, Merioneth, Wales; cabinet maker (fl. 1851)
A portfolio table by William Jones was exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851 (illus. Bebb (2007), fig. 1084), together with an ebony tripod table. The catalogue of the Exhibition commented: ‘… these contributions, from a place so far removed from the great marts of operative industry, are highly creditable to the parties who have brought them forward… Mr Jones is, we understand, a person who has raised himself from the condition of an ordinary carpenter to one of considerable provincial eminence as a ornamental carver in wood’.
The portfolio table had been commissioned by Hugh John Reveley, a local gentleman, who later wrote that the table was ‘invented by William Jones and myself…’. Jones was his tenant and Reveley claimed to have taught him to carve. He later became ‘a first rate carver in London’.
Source: Bebb, Welsh Furniture (2007), II, p. 234.
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