Phipps, Thomas

81 Leadenhall St, London; upholder, cabinet maker and auctioneer (1757–84)

Free of the Joiners’ Co. From the Leadenhall St address took out licences to employ non-freemen in 1757, 1766 and 1767. William Chenery is also recorded trading at this address in 1781 and may have been his successor. A table bearing his trade label reading ’By the MAKER, THOMAS PHIPPS At the Sun & Looking-Glass Leadenhall Street London’ (illus. Gilbert (1996), figs 727-728) has been recorded in the collection of the Nieborow Museum, Radziwill Palace, Warsaw, Poland. [GL, City Licence bks, vols 1 and 5; V&A archives].

Source: DEFM; Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840 (1996).