Knowles, Edward (1740-1760)
Knowles, Edward
‘The India Cabinet’, Fryar Street, Reading, Berkshire; upholsterer and cabinet maker (fl. c.1740-60)
His mid 18th-century trade card in the Leverhulme Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, indicates that he undertook both upholstery and cabinet making, bought, sold and appraised household goods and did work ‘by Designs and Designs given’.
Source: DEFM
The original entry from Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840 can be found at British History Online.