Late Regency Games Table by T.G Seddon

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A newly refinished Chinese Chippendale mahogany console table.

Possibly Baltic or Scandinavian mahogany demilune console with marble top and continental neoclassical ormolu caryatid busts. Ormolu s...

A ebony English Colonial games table having a folding top on center column and four cabriole legs.

An elegant English rosewood Regency fliptop games table with dore bronze rosette mounts on apron. Laurel motif bronze mounts on legs fitted with brass sabots. Early 19th century. Th...

A Rare Early 19th Century Regency Period Kingwood Rectangular Card Games Table, Having Superbly Figured Foldover, Swivel, Top With Attractive Yew Wood Crossbanded Decoration, Enclosi...

A mid 19th century Goncalo Alves card table by Gillows of Lancaster, the hinged rectangular top with egg and dart molding, the green baize interior within quarter veneered corners, t...

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...