A Regency carved mahogany chest of drawers attributed to T & G Seddon

The rectangular top above two short and three long drawers flanked by Corinthian carved pilasters headed by roundels, on a scrolling lotus leaf carved plinth base, 112m wide, 55cm deep, 104cm high.

An identical chest labelled T&G Seddon and bearing the firm's Aldersgate Street address and inscribed '1786' and 'Jaime'? formerly with Carlton Hobbs Ltd., is illustrated in C.Gilbert, Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds 1996, p.414, pl.823.

The unusual handle pattern utilised by Seddon on the lot offered here is seen on bedroom furniture supplied by Morel and Seddon to George IV for Windsor Castle. These include a mahogany chest of drawers circa 1828 (RCIN 21707), see H.Roberts, For the Kings Pleasure, The Furnishing and Decoration of George IV's Apartments at Windsor Castle, London 2001, p.284, pl.361, on an elm and giltwood secretaire, now in a private collection and on a further rosewood secretaire (RCIN 90169), see H.Roberts, ibid., p.317, fig 398, and p.327, fig 409. An unidentified cabinet from Windsor Castle with this handle pattern was sold Phillips London, 22 April 1986, lot 73.

The firm of George Seddon existed in various manifestations between 1753 and 1868 and was one of London's leading furniture producers in the later part of the 18th century. T & G Seddon were Thomas Seddon II and George Seddon III, nephews of the original George Seddon and received a Royal Warrant in 1832.