Rare English Regency Period Mahogany Adjustable Reading Table, circa 1820

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 gilt-bronze mounted mahogany table Ambulante with a marble top attributed to François Linke. The table has a circular inset top above a band frieze with applied mounts. It is r...

A Louis XV style gilt-bronze mounted mahogany Gueridon with a marble top. French, circa 1890. The circular marble top within a gilt-bronze band above a frieze with gilt-bronze ...

A Gilt-Bronze Mounted Burr Walnut Writing Table, Probably by Gillows. The rectangular top has a gilt-bronze surround above a serpentine frieze fronted by a central drawer. The corn...

An early 19th century Regency period mahogany and fiddleback mahogany occasional table, having rectangular reeded edged top, above turned and acanthus carved stem, raised on double-s...

The rectangular tilt-top of finely figured timber with removable reading ledge; raised on a turn columnar support and three downswept cabriole legs terminating in pad-form feet. P...

Circa 1890 19thC Mahogany Adjustable Reading Table sku 918 W99 X D29 X H70 cm

Regency Mahogany reading table. circa 1800. This rather interesting table stands upon tapered legs with brass castors. The table features faux drawers to the front and has a rise and...