Thomas Chippendale senior (1718 - 1779)
Thomas Chippendale senior (1718 - 1779)
RA Collection: People and Organisations
Cabinet-maker, in Rococo and Neoclassical styles. Trained in Yorkshire; from ca. 1749 was active in London. Son of joiner John Chippendale (1690-1768); father of cabinet-maker Thomas Chippendale junior (1749-1822).
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Born: 1718
Died: 1779
Works after Thomas Chippendale in the RA Collection
4 results
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![Thomas Chippendale senior, Four designs for girandole sconces]()
After Thomas Chippendale senior
Four designs for girandole sconces
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![Thomas Chippendale senior, Design for a pier-plass frame (including an alternative cresting)]()
After Thomas Chippendale senior
Design for a pier-plass frame (including an alternative cresting)
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![Thomas Chippendale senior, Two designs for pier-glass frames]()
After Thomas Chippendale senior
Two designs for pier-glass frames
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![Thomas Chippendale senior, Four designs of frames for marble table-tops]()
After Thomas Chippendale senior
Four designs of frames for marble table-tops
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Associated books
3 results
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Thomas Chippendale senior
A collection of ornamental designs : applicable to furniture, frames & the decoration of rooms, in the style of Louis 14th - on 24 plates ; chiefly after Thos Chippendale - [London]: [1840?]
17/2765
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Thomas Chippendale senior
The Gentleman And Cabinet-Maker's Director. Being A Large Collection Of The Most Elegant and Useful Designs of Houshold Furniture In The Gothic, Chinese and Modern Taste: Including a great Variety of Book-Cases for Libraries or Private Rooms. Commodes, Library and Writing-Tables, Buroes, Breakfast-Tables, Dressing and China-Tables, China-Cases, Hanging-Shelves, Tea-Chests, Trays, Fire-Screens, Chairs, Settees, Sopha's, Beds, Presses and Cloaths-Chests, Pier-Glass Sconces, Slab Frames, Brackets, Candle-Stands, Clock-Cases, Frets, And Other Ornaments. To Which Is Prefixed, A Short Explanation of the Five Orders of Architecture, and Rules of Perspective; With Proper Directions for executing the most difficult Pieces, the Mouldings being exhibited at large, and the Dimensions of each Design specified: The Whole Comprehended In One Hundred and Sixty Copper-Plates, neatly Engraved, Calculated to improve and refine the present Taste, and suited to the Fancy and Circumstances of Persons in all Degrees of Life. - [Epigraph] - By Thomas Chippendale, Of St. Martin's-Lane, Cabinet-Maker. - - London,
07/724
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R. Davis Benn
Style in furniture / by R. Davis Benn; with illustrations by W.C. Baldcock - London; New York; Bombay: 1904
14/939