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Taverner, Phillip (1745-1755)

Taverner, Phillip

Dublin, Ireland; japanner (fl.1745-d.1755?)

Recorded in Aungier Street, 1745-55.

Faulkner’s Dublin Journal, 13-116 October 1753: ‘Philip Taverner, just returned from London, next door to the play house in Aungier-street, will furnish ladies with all kinds of Japanned work or cabinet chamber chests, dressing boxes, tables and trays done in a ground, which will bare boiling water, all kinds of varnished and gilding oils…’.

Succeeded in 1755 by Mary Taverner, probably his widow.

Source: Glin & Peill, Irish Furniture (2007), p. 295.