FINE AND RARE FEDERAL INLAID AND CARVED MAHOGANY AND SATINWOOD SOFA, ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN AND THOMAS SEYMOUR, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1800

Martin J. Conlon American Antiques, Providence, Rhode Island.

This sofa's design relates directly to sofas that have been recently ascribed to the work of master cabinetmakers John and Thomas Seymour (see Robert D. Mussey Jr., The Furniture Masterworks of John & Thomas Seymour, (Salem, MA: Peabody Essex Museum, 2003), pp. 398-405). A nearly identical sofa, also attributed to John and Thomas Seymour, is in the collection of the Rhode Island School of Design, acc. no. 1987.016.