The rise and fall of a king’s cabinetmaker
AN interesting pair of mahogany armchairs at the Decorative Antiques and Textiles Fair, Battersea, SW11 (May 4–8), represents a new name to me. Where did Henry Thomas Peters, cabinetmaker to the King of Sardinia, begin his career and where was he born in 1792?
His father was British and his mother French and, when he arrived in Genoa in 1817, he seems to have had good contacts, especially the Durazzo family, which had produced nine Doges of the former Genoese Republic. Other early clients were the De
