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Article: John Channon and English brass-inlaid furniture, 1730-1760. (The Golden Age 1730-1760: brass-inlaid furniture by John Channon and his contemporaries, Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- February 1, 1994
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Most mid-eighteenth-century English brass-inlaid furniture has been attributed to John Channon ever since the publication of an article by John Hayward in 1966.(1) Hayward's thesis rested on a pair of remarkable brass-inlaid library bookcases made for Sir William Courtenay for Powderham Castle near Exeter in Devonshire (see Pl. IV) that bear brass plaques inscribed "17 J. Channon Fecit 40."
Channon was apprenticed in 1726 to his elder brother Otho (1698--1756), a chairmaker in Exeter. By 1737 he had set up his own business on St. Martin's Lane in London, and in 1742 two advertisements in London newspapers announced that he was working as a cabinetmaker and frame ...
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