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Cox & Sons

Dates: 1837-1881

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Ecclesiastical warehouse at 28-9 Southampton Street, off the Strand. By 1872 the firm was listing Gothic and monumental metalworks in Lambeth and stained glass works in Covent Garden, and described itself as an artistic furniture manufacturer, japanner and cabinet carver. The catalogue stated that the firm had acquired much of the stock of furniture and designs by E. W. Pugin for the Granville Hotel and working drawings from the Society of Decorative Art, of Great Marlborough Street. Cox & Son commissioned furniture, metalwork, stained glass and ceramic designs from a number of leading designers including B.J. Talbert, S.J. Nicholls, G. Goldie, J. Moyr Smith, O. W. Davis, C. Rossiter and E. W. Godwin. From 1870 to 1874 the silversmith John James Keith worked under the firm's name, producing prize winning designs principally by Talbert. Cox & Son were represented at international exhibitions in London in 1862, 187I, 1872, 1873; Paris in 1867; and Philadephia in 1876; as well as later at the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society. Dresser used Cox's stained glass at Bushloe House. In 1881 the firm merged with Buckley & Co. and continued as Cox, Son, Buckley & Co. into the twentieth century, concentrating again on church furnishings. Between 1896 and 1903 James Keith, successor of John James Keith, was a partner in the company.