Fine George I Gilt Gesso Centre Table

With moulded rectangular Bardiglio marble top above shell carved cabriole legs and pad feet.

A George III figures mahogany ladies writing table, attributable to John Cobb with rising screen and concealed drawer on shaped slender cabriole l...

A superb Irish George II white painted mirror. The carved architectural top with a central scallop shell, above a panel of panel swagged ribbons a...

Circa 1730 - 40 The rectangular bevelled plate within a gadrooned edge and egg-and-dart border, surmounted by a floral-carved broken pediment centred by a foliate cartouche, the p...

A very fine George IV pollard oak writing table, with original Moroccan red leather and exceptional patination to the oak. In the manner of George...

The dial signed William Scafe, London, the arched hood with an elaborate caddy top surmounted by three carved giltwood flambeau pedestal urns above a gilt scroll pierced sound frieze...

This elegant centre or sidetable is an unusual small size. It has a pared down form with no frieze drawer and would Stand well in a contemporary interior The carpenter has used hi...

A fine and rare carved gesso console table circa 1720 having a molded and floral carved gesso top resting on a shaped apron having floral carved cabriole legs terminating in stylized...

Outstanding quality antique George III mahogany centre table having a wonderful figured mahogany tilt top with a pie crust edge supported on a turned shaped carved mahogany pedestal ...

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...

A Fine Sèvres-Style Porcelain and Gilt-Bronze Mounted Ebonised Centre Table The top inset with a turquoise ground central plaque of Francis I (1494-1547) at the Battle of Pavia, sig...

Superb quality antique George III mahogany oval centre table having a superb quality oval mahogany crossbanded tilt top with satinwood stringing supported on a turned column and rais...