Lot 401: A REGENCY BRASS-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD AND PARCEL-EBONIZED AND GILT SOFA TABLE

BY THOMAS AND GEORGE SEDDON, CIRCA 1815
The rectangular top with twin-hinged rounded flaps above a pair of frieze drawers, with sham drawers to the reverse, over a spreading fluted stem with gadrooned collar above an incurved quadripartite base on scroll-headed paw-form feet with recessed casters, bearing a paper label T.&...SEDDON/NO 805/LONDON HOUSE/ALDERSGATE ST and a handwritten label inscribed From Mr. S.G. White
28 1/4 in. (71.5 cm.) high, 59 1/2 in. (151 cm.) wide, 27 1/2 in. (70 cm.) deep

S.G. White (according to the label).
Anonymous sale, Christie's, South Kensington, 15 September 2004, lot 481.

Property of Bronson Pinchot
(Lots 401-417)

Thomas and George Seddon, successors to a long established firm of cabinet-makers were located in Aldersgate Street, London until 1826 when fire destroyed their workshop and they moved to Gray's Inn Road. They were awarded a Royal Warrant in 1832 following their partnership with Nicholas Morel to refurnish Windsor Castle. Thereafter, they included 'Manufacturers To Her Majesty' at the head of their label.

A pair of rosewood card tables by T. & G. Seddon and bearing the Aldersgate Street label, display very similar collared column supports and bold paw feet to the present lot. They are the property of English Heritage at Brodsworth Hall, South Yorkshire, and illustrated in C. Gilbert, The Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture, 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, p. 408, fig. 810.