This cabinet is related to the work of the cabinet-makers Morel & Seddon who from 1827 were appointed to furnish the George IV's apartments at Windsor.
Nicholas Morel had been a supplier of furniture to George IV since the 1790s and after 1804 in partnership with Robert Hughes. However it was Morel alone who was appointed to Windsor. In order to be able to fulfil the commission he would need a partner with sufficient resources and in 1827 he settled upon an arrangement with George Seddon whose great grandfather had established a furniture-making business in 1753. Morel likely took the major artistic decisions while Seddon offered (probably) the largest workshops in London with experienced draughtsmen, managers and skilled workers (C.Gilbert, Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660 – 1840, Leeds, 1986, p. 624 and pp. 793–798).

The goods supplied by Morel & Seddon reflected the King’s taste and the current fashion for French and Gothic styles, and they enlisted many collaborators from design to manufacture including, J.J.Boileau, F.H.G.Jacob-Desmalter both Pugins Snr and Jnr and W.& G.Perry. The King wished for those parts of Windsor that retained a mediaeval character to be furnished in corresponding style, elsewhere a more obviously French Empire/Regency style prevailed, employing a variety of highly polished and richly mounted or inlaid, exotic timbers, everywhere there was luxurious upholstery and vivid silks.

The form, quality, giltwood columns, and gilt-bronze mounts of the present lot relate to items by Morel & Seddon and supplied to Windsor Castle, including a pair of side cabinets with Windsor Castel inventory label, sold Bonham's London, 1 October 2008, lot 63.