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JAQUES, John (son of Thomas Jacques): Listed as an ‘ivory and hardwood turner, cutter and pearl worker’ and a ‘dealer in ivory and foreign hardwoods’ at 102 Hatton Garden, London, in Robson’s London Directory, 1840. Goods included tea chests and caddies. 

JAQUES, Thomas (son of John Jacques): 65 Leather Lane, Holborn, London. Trade card states ‘Manufacturer of Ivory, Hardwoods Bone & Tunbridge Ware’. (Heal, pp. 88, 96; Chapter 10: Ivory, Figure 10.26) 

JAMES, Robert: (fl. c. 1790-1831). Cabinetmaker and upholsterer in Terrill Street (c. 1790-1807; trading as James, Fry & Co. at 35 Broad Mead (1807-1813); as Robert James & Co. at 35 Broad Mead, Bristol (1814-1820). Advertised as above in Matthews’ Bristol Directory, 1827. Granted Royal warrant in 1823. Sarcophagus curvilinear yew wood tea chest, c.1830, with two canisters and well for a sugar bowl with label on pink velvet lining stating ‘Manufacturer in British Woods to his Majesty ROBT JAMES Cabinet Maker & UPHOLSTERER No. 35 Broad Mead BRISTOL’; burr yew wood and rosewood tea caddy. (Bristol City Museums and Art Gallery Journal, 1986)  

JENNENS & BETTRIDGE: (fl. 1815-64). Manufacturers of papier mâché goods at Lionel Street (1810-1813), and at 99 Constitution Hill, Birmingham (from between 1821 and 1823 onwards); by 1828, also had showroom at 12 Bell’s Buildings, Salisbury Square, Fleet Street, and subsequently, at 3 Halkin Street West, Belgrave Square, London.; later, had showroom in Paris and office in New York. Trade card, c. 1822, stating ‘JENNENS & BETTRIDGE Constitution Hill Birmingham ORIGINAL INVENTORS OF THE GOTHIC-SHAPED PAPER TRAYS AND Manufacturers of Every Variety of Tray Also of Table Tops, Cabinets, Ladies Dressing, Toilet Work and Card Boxes, Pole and Hand Screens, Ornaments for Chimney Pieces, Quadrille Pools, &c. Tea Chests Caddies, Snuff Boxes &c.’. (The Bodleian Libraries, The University of Oxford. John Johnson collection; Chapter 16: Papier Mâché, Figure 16.18). Advertised as ‘Manufacturers of … tea chests, caddies …’ in the History and General Directory of the Borough of Birmingham … Parish of Aston, the Soho and Part of Handsworth, 1849. Made large numbers of tea chests and caddies, many of which are impressed with their name. Squat baluster-shaped tea caddy with converse corners on a raised rectangular base, decorated in the oriental style with coloured foliage on a white ground; impressed on the underside ‘JENNENS & BETTRIDGE’ with a crown above; displayed at Great Exhibition, London, 1851. (Victoria and Albert Museum). Black-japanned bombé tea caddy ‘Inlaid with Pearl Lines and Gold, 35s.’, exhibited at Exposition Universelle des produits de l’agriculture, de l’industrie et des Beaux-Arts de Paris, 1855. (Chapter 3 : Making …, Figure 3.32) (The J. Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History). Tea caddy of same design to above, inlaid with vertical bands of mother-of-pearl interspersed with gold tracery and impressed ‘JENNENS & BETTRIDGE’. (Woolley and Wallis Salerooms, Salisbury; Chapter 16: Papier Mâché, Figure 16.19). Large bombé papier mâché tea chest, c. 1840, bronzed and painted with Italianate landscapes; two canisters and well with cut-glass sugar bowl; impressed ‘JENNENS & BETTRIDGE’. (Witney Antiques, Witney; Chapter 16: Papier Mâché, Figure 16.26)  

JERARD, I.: (Address unknown). Mahogany tea chest, c. 1820, with ebonised stringing; two canisters with hinged lids, and well for sugar bowl; one canister stamped ‘I JERARD’ on underside of lid. (Private collection) 

JESSE, Samuel: Retailer at The Rocking Horse, 32 High Street, Exeter. Following Samuel’s death, c. 1806, widow Mary took over business; recorded in Newman’s Exeter Pocket Journal, 1816; notice in Trewman’s Exeter Flying Post, 26 January 1826, announces ‘Mrs Jesse Being about to retire from Business, begs to inform her Friends and the Public, that she has decided in favour of Mr WOODBURY … as her Successor’; in same issue, T. Woodbury announced he stocked ‘A General Assortment of Fishing Tackle, Fine Cutlery, Portable Desks, and Ladies’ Workboxes, Chess, Backgammon, and Bagatelle Boards; Perfumery, etc.’. Shield-shaped label on base of Botany Bay oak chest-on-stand, c. 1815, stating ‘Bot. at S. Jesse’s Toy, Perfume and Fishing Tackle Warehouse at the Rocking Horse 32 High Street Exeter’. (Private collection; Chapter 23; Teapoys …, Figure 23.8) 

JOHNSTONE, John: (fl. c. 1820-1835). In partnership with Robert Jupe (1835-42), trading as JOHNSTONE JUPE & CO. at 132A New Bond Street London, and with Charles Jeans (from 1842), trading as JOHNSTONE & JEANS. (C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840). Teapoy, c. 1820, with double hinged top on ratchet support opening to form bookstand; pair of hinged canisters and other compartments above dummy frieze and short dummy drawers; on rear, dummy frieze drawer and two short drawers; circular tapered support, on concave rectangular plinth on four reeded swept legs; castors stamped ‘BS & P PATENT’ beneath a crown; chest stamped on sides and under lock ’JOHNSTONE NEW BOND St. LONDON’. (Private collection). Mahogany sarcophagus teapoy, c. 1840, with four canisters and two wells for sugar bowls; bulbous turned column and platform base with concave sides and turned bun feet; chest stamped on inner rim, ‘JOHNSTONE JUPE & CO. NEW BOND STREET LONDON 42421’. (Phillips Son & Neale, 12 November 1991, Lot 197) 

JONES, Arthur & Son: (fl. 1840 onwards). ‘Upholsterer, Cabinet Maker, Undertaker, Valuator, Auctioneer, & House Agent’ at 3 St Stephen’s Green N. and 135 St Stephen’s Green West, Dublin, Ireland. (Dublin Directory, 1848). As Arthur Jones, Son & Co., ‘House Furnishers, Undertakers, Valuators and Auctioneers to Her Majesty’s Board of Works’. (Post Office Directory of Dublin, 1863). Trade label (undated) stating ‘Established A.D. 1765 Sole Recipients in Ireland of a Gold Medal for Design & Manufacture of Household Furniture’. (The Knight of Glyn, ‘Dublin directories and trade labels’, Furniture History Society Journal, Vol. XXI, 1985, p. 267). Bog yew teapoy shown at Great Exhibition, London, 1851, illustrated in The Catalogue of the Great Exhibition, London, 1851, Class 26, No.4, p. 736. (The J. Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History; Chapter 23: Teapoys …, Figure 23.45)  

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JONES, C: Fancy cabinetmaker in Great George Street, Liverpool. Announced theft of ‘a handsome black rose-wood tea chest, banded with tulip wood hollow round the top, with two canisters and a basin-place in the middle’ (valued at £2-14s), and ‘a mahogany double tea caddie with bevelled top’ (valued at 16s), in the Liverpool Mercury, 31 December 1824. (DEFM)