Price, John

‘The Three Chairs & Cabinet’, Catherine Street, Strand, London, upholsterer, undertaker and appraiser (fl. 1726–58)

Son of Petley Price of Wantage, Berkshire, Gent apprenticed to Thomas Money on 7 December 1726 and made free of the Upholders’ Company by servitude, 3 March 1735/36. He in turn apprenticed Thomas Chapman in 1741 for seven years [Guildhall Library Upholders' Company records].

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British Museum

Copy of the trade card of John Price Upholsterer, UNDERTAKER, & Sworn APPRAISER, at the Three-Chairs, & Cabbinet in Catherine-Street in the Strand LONDON. Maketh & Selleth all sorts of Upholsterers & Cabbinet Makers Goods, Viz.^t  ‘All Sorts of Standing Beds, Feather Beds Mattresses Quilts Blankets Ruggs, Coverlids, Bed Ticks, Goods by the piece, viz. Silk & Worstead Damasks, Camblers Harrateens Chenys, Printed Stuffs and all Sorts of Silk & Worstead Lace Carpets, Tapestry Hangings, Chairs, Cabbinets, Desks, Book-cases, Chests of Drawers, Tea Chests. Mahogany and other Tables Peir and Chimney Glasses Large Gold and other Sconces with all sorts of goods necessary for Funerals. All at the Lowest Prices, c. 1730

Commissions:

• 1748–58: Supply of furniture to Lord Monson. The first payment recorded was in February 1748 for £25 but from 1751 the sums were much more substantial. For making chairs, tables, stands and repairs and other work at Burton Hall, Lincoln, 1753–54, £413 8s 4d was charged; and £150 8s 4d was paid in 1751–53 for new furniture and repairs at Broxbournebury. The more substantial items included eight mahogany elbow chairs in June 1752 at £16 16s, twelve mahogany chairs in April 1753 at £18, a walnut sofa frame in March 1754 at £5 12s 5½d and a mahogany one in July at £6 10s. The most expensive item was, however, a ‘very large … Chinese carved and painted frame’ for which £23 was paid. The account for £413 8s 4d submitted in 1755 was not fully settled until February 1758 [Lincoln Record Office, Monson 10/3/13a, 10/3/13b, 11/50, 12]
• 1754-55: Supplied cushions, carpets and curtains for the House of Peers and the House of Commons and their Committee Rooms [National Archive (TNA), LC9/291]
• 1755–56: George Bowes, Earl of Strathmore hired a furnished house from John Price [Durham Record Office, D/St/ 325]

Source: DEFM