George IV Burr-Maple Centre Table

A fine George IV burr oak sofa table, circa 1825. The frieze with a mahogany-lined drawer and dummy drawer to each side.

A VERY UNUSUAL ANGLO-INDIAN SATINWOOD, TEAK, AND BLACK ROSEWOOD OCTAGONAL CENTRE TABLE, CIRCA 1880. Of pegged construction. With parquetry top, the partly ebonised cruciform base ca...

A massive octagonal oak centre table in the manner of Phillip Webb, circa 1875. The socket castors stamped COPE & COLLINSON PATENT.

A FINE AESTHETIC MOVEMENT BLACK ROSEWOOD CENTRE TABLE INLAID WITH MOTHER-OF-PEARL, ABALONE, BRASS AND COPPER, Circa 1880.

Beautiful 19th century Birdseye maple centre table. The whole is supported by two decorative pedestal bases and scroll feet. Beautiful colour and aged patina, in good condition!

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...

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...