Property from the Collection of Jodi White Wenzl and Daniel Wenzl
A Very Fine and Rare Federal Two Drawer Work Table, attributed to John Seymour (1738–1818) and/or Thomas Seymour (1771–1848), Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1800
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January 25, 09:56 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 20,000 USD
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Description
inlaid and figured mahogany, satinwood, she oak and rosewood
height 29 ½ in. by width 20 ½ in. by depth 15 ⅝ in.
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A nearly identical table, possibly its mate, is illustrated in Vernon C. Stoneman, John and Thomas Seymour: Cabinetmakers in Boston 1794-1816, (Boston, MA: Special Productions, 1959), p. 237, no. 150. Another nearly identical table, once in the Mrs. Charles Hallam Keep collection, is illustrated in Israel Sack, Inc., American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, vol. 1, (Washington, DC: Highland House Publishers Inc., 1972), p. 283, no. 696 and was exhibited at the Girl Scout Loan exhibition, no. 685. A related Seymour work table is in the Kaufman collection a promised gift to the National Portrait Gallery (see Robert D. Mussey Jr., The Furniture Masterworks of John & Thomas Seymour, (Salem, MA: Peabody Essex Museum; Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2003), pp. 297-7, no. 81 and J. Michael Flanigan, American Furniture from the Kaufman Collection, (Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1986), pp. 198-9, no. 80).
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