Potter, Thomas

address unknown; cabinet maker (fl. 1735–38)

On 10 May 1735 Potter was paid £19 by Sir Justinian Isham for a communion table for Lamport Church, Northamptonshire. Amongst the Stourhead, Wiltshire bills is one dated 1738 receipted by Kelsey & Potter which was a partnership of this maker with a John Kelsey.

This is perhaps the same Potter whose trade card survives, depicting a variety of mechanical or metamorphic furniture (illus. Gilbert & Murdoch, John Channon and Brass Inlaid Furniture (1993), pl. 11). Several pieces of furniture corresponding to the Potter trade card survive (for instance, a tea table at Temple Newsam House, Leeds).

Sources: DEFM; Gilbert & Murdoch, ‘Channon Revisited’, Furniture History (1994).