Irish George IV Rosewood Centre Table

A fine George IV burr oak and brass inlayed centre table The circular top with a brass inlaid border, above a carved gadrooned edge, resting on a p...

A Large Scottish Regency Mahogany Centre Table The circular figured mahogany top with a reeded edge, above a figured mahogany frieze with carved rosettes, the hexagonal stem of the ...

A George IV rosewood writing table. The rectangular tooled leather top, with a rosewood cross banded edge, and a pierced brass gallery, above two fr...

A monumental George IV Irish brown mahogany serving table. The beautifully figured inverted breakfront top with bow ends and moulded edge, above a panel...

An Irish George IV Figured Mahogany three pillar dining table The rectangular top with a double moulded reeded edge, with two additional leaves, res...

A monumental Irish George IV giltwood convex mirror. A very large and impressive George IV giltwood convex mirror, the original circular convex mirror...

George IV rosewood centre table A large early 19th century George IV rosewood centre or breakfast table. The rosewood veneered circular top has a broad lappet carved edge and i...

An impressive large scale William IV rosewood octagonal centre table. The three boldly carved solid rosewood scrolled supports and carved centr...

Superb Irish Regency gilt and composition centre table. Circa 1820. This table features wonderful gilded gesso decoration, as was very popular in the e...

The circular tilt top has a central field of book-matched, figured rosewood within a broad band of cut brass inlay. The edge is boldly carved with an acanthus and dart border. The central support is hexagonal in section with a broad central flange, raised on three powerful and ornately carved legs. The knees are presented as bold acanthus carved and gadrooned volutes. The lions’ paw feet have clearly defined knuckles and claws and enclose the original brass castors. English, circa 1825. See also S. Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840, Antique Collectors’ Club, Woodbridge, 2008, Vol II, pl. E.5, which shows a pattern for this table in a drawing room layout designed for G.Bamford about 1820-30. The drawing also shows a pair of bergères and a sofa which correspond to a suite supplied by Gillow & Co. in 1824 to Thomas Wynn...

George IV rosewood circular center table with tapering octagonal column ending in triped platform base raised on bun feet with hidden casters. Table tilts up.

A Very Fine George IV Parcel-Gilt Amboyna Centre Table Attributed to Thomas & George Seddon. English, Circa 1830. The table is of finely figured Amboyna with a circular tilt-top above a triform column with parcel-gilt scrolled supports. It is raised on a conforming plinth base with foliate carved feet and concealed castors. George Seddon was the eighth child of John Seddon of Blakelea, Lancashire. His father apprenticed him to George Clemaphon of Cripplegate to learn cabinet making. He became a master cabinet maker. (He was Master of the Joiner’s Company in 1795). In the early 1750s he was sufficiently successful to acquire London House, Aldersgate Street. It consisted of extensive workshops, where furniture was made, and showrooms to display the finished products. London House had formerly been a palace of the Bishops of London. The panelled state-rooms were ideal for the display of fashionable furniture; and the chapel and library made convenient workshops. When Seddon married, he converted the garden house and infirmary into the family home. Seddon was the biggest furniture maker of his time. His furniture store covered a two acre site in Aldersgate Street. His workshop there was described by London visitor Sophie v. La Roche in 1786: "We drove first to Mr. Seddon's, a cabinet-maker,...He employs four hundred apprentices on any work connected with the making of household furniture—joiners, carvers, gilders...