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MAYHEW, THOMAS

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 935 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MAYHEW, See also:THOMAS , See also:English 18th See also:century See also:cabinet-maker. Mayhew was the less distinguished partner of See also:William See also:Ince (q.v.). The See also:chief source of See also:information as to his See also:work is supplied by his own drawings in the See also:volume of designs, The universal See also:system of See also:household See also:furniture, which he published in collaboration with his partner. The name of the See also:firm appears to have been Mayhew and Ince, but on the See also:title See also:page of this See also:book the names are reversed, perhaps as an indication that Ince was the more extensive contributor. In the See also:main Mayhew's designs are heavy and clumsy, and often downright extravagant, but he had a certain lightness of accomplishment in his applications of the bizarre See also:Chinese See also:style. Of See also:original See also:talent he possessed little, yet it is certain that much of his Chinese work has been attributed to See also:Chippendale. It is indeed often only by reference to books of See also:design that the respective work of the English cabinet-makers of the second See also:half of the 18th century can be correctly attributed.

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