George I Black Japanned Centre Table

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...

An early 18th century George I Irish Kilkenny marble frame chimneypiece, the central keystone carved with a scallop shell, a symbol of fertility implying this could have been commiss...

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

An early 18th Century / George I Irish Kilkenny Marble frame chimneypiece with a fluted keystone, flanked by fielded panels to the frieze, on original footblocks.

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...

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...

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 large and beautifully carved George II style mahogany centre table, with Greek key frieze and a faux marble top. It is carved on all four sides, so could be used as a console or ce...

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 George IV ebony-inlaid mahogany tilt-top centre table, the circular top with a flame-veneered cross-banded border above a moulded frieze with ebony stringing and four small rectang...

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...