Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1800, highly figured mahogany top, mahogany and satinwood veneers, top edge with partially green dyed toothed pattern inlay, round tapered reeded legs, period manufacturing inscriptions to rear rail and underside (see photos), 29-1/4 x 36 x 17-3/4 in.
Provenance: Clark Pearce, Essex, Massachusetts, August 2021; The Delany Collection of American Furniture and Decorative Arts
Note: Examples with similar inlay appear in Robert Mussey, The Furniture Masterworks of John and Thomas Seymour (2003), pp.93-94, fig 5.14. The same book illustrates a nearly identical example p. 344, fig. 105.
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Clark Pearce, Essex, Massachusetts, August 2021; The Delany Collection of American Furniture and Decorative Arts
in a fine state of preservation with very good condition overall, chip to tip of proper right front foot with infill
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