FINE FEDERAL FIGURED MAHOGANY DROP LEAF DINING TABLE, ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN AND/OR THOMAS SEYMOUR, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1805

Christie's New York, Important American Furniture, Silver, Folk Art and Decorative Arts, June 28, 1994, sale 7294, lot 240;

Marguerite Riordan, Stonington, Connecticut.

Robert Mussey has identified and attributed a similar dining table with reeded and ring-turned supports to Thomas Seymour, 1810-20; see Robert D. Mussey Jr., The Furniture Masterworks of John & Thomas Seymour, (Salem, MA: Peabody Essex Museum, 2003), p. 326, catalogue entry 96. For more related literature on the subject, also see Sack, American Art from Israel Sack Collection, vol. 3, brochure 21, p. 809, P3510; Greenlaw, New England Furniture at Williamsburg, Chalottesville, University of Virginia Press, 1974, fig. 139.

For a related example recently sold, see Skinner Boston, American Furniture & Decorative Arts, February 27, 2016, sale 2880B, lot 178.