A Very Fine Federal Inlaid and Figured Mahogany Chamber Table, Portsmouth, New Hampshire circa 1805

Appears to retain its original hardware.

Sotheby's New York, Important Americana Including Furniture, Folk Art and Folk Paintings, Prints, Silver and Carpets, January 28-31, 1987, sale no. 5551, lot 1244.

Hardware appears to be original, some minor repair to inlay on cups, secondary wood is white pine, proper right front corner of top with a 2 inch by ¾ inch patch, refinished, veneer strips on edge of top possibly restored.
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This chamber table is one of six closely related examples.  They are located at RISD [Christopher Monkhouse and Thomas S. Michie, American Furniture in Pendleton House, (Providence, RI: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1986), p.88, no. 33], Winterthur Museum [Charles F. Montgomery, American Furniture: The Federal Period in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, (New York: Viking Press, 1966), p. 353-4, no. 335], two at Historic New England [Penny J. Sander, ed., Elegant Embellishments: Furnishings from New England Homes, 1660-1860, (Boston: Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, 1982), p. 57], and the Metropolitan Museum of Art [Vernon C. Stoneman, John and Thomas Seymour: Cabinetmakers in Boston, (Boston: Special Publications, 1959), p. 280, no. 178. Two of the tables at Historic New England have firm Portsmouth histories. For addtional information see Brock Jobe, Portsmouth Furniture: Masterpieces from the New Hampshire Seacoast, (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England for the Society of the Preservation of New England Antiquities, 1993), pp. 143-4., no. 21.)