ATTRIBUTED TO SEDDON, SONS AND SHACKLETON, CIRCA 1795

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD AND PAINTED SATINWOOD CARD-TABLES
ATTRIBUTED TO SEDDON, SONS AND SHACKLETON, CIRCA 1795
Each with demi-lune hinged top decorated with an oval medallion ribbon-tied floral spray and peacock feather bordered edge enclosing a mauve baize-lined playing-surface above a moulded cornice and fluted frieze, on turned tapering stop-fluted legs, regilt, refreshments to the decoration, the base previously japanned, the ovals later painted
28¾ in. (73 cm.) high; 36 in. (91.5 cm.) wide; 18 in. (45.5 cm.) deep (2)

Provenance

David Style, Esq., Wateringbury Place, Kent; Christie's, house sale, 31 May - 2 June 1978, lot 301.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

While antique-flutes wreath the frames and reed-enriched columnar legs, beribboned bouquets flower the Roman-medallions inlaid on the pier-tables' elliptic golden tops and are wreathed by ribboned-guilloches of 'Juno' peacock feathers in rosewood borders. The feathered border was also introduced by the Aldersgate firm of Messrs. Seddon, Sons and Shackleton on a card-table that formed part of a suite of furniture invoiced in 1790 to Mr. Daniel Tupper of Hauteville, Guernsey (C. Gilbert, 'Seddon, Sons & Shackleton', Furniture History, 1997, pp.1-29 and fig. 3).
The latter's en suite chairs were described as 'Satinwood Elbow Chairs ... neatly Japanned-ornamented with roses in back and peacock feather border' (M. Tomlin, Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture: Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1982, p. 133).

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