George IV Rosewood Centre Table

Sourced on the West Coast of France near Bordeaux this pair of antique Demi-Lune tables are mid 19th Century. We were very drawn to the shape of the legs and the overall natural pat...

We sourced this handsome panelled oak settle from The Old House, Aspley Guise, Bedfordshire. Early 18th Century with a leather hinged seat with storage underneath. All in very good...

This beautiful antique Swedish bench is early 19th century from Northern Sweden. The layers of paint have been dry scraped revealing the original colours and beautiful carved deta...

This charming antique French sideboard was sourced in Provence. Masses of rustic elegance and a deep rich burgundy paint showing all of its history and character. Some restoration ...

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...

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 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...