Americana: Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Chinese Export Art and Prints
Americana: Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Chinese Export Art and Prints
Property from the Collection of Barbara and Lawrence A. Fleischman
A Rare Classical Two-Part Dining Table, Attributed to John Seymour (1738–1818) and/or Thomas Seymour (1771–1848), Boston, Massachusetts, Circa 1815
Lot Closed
January 20, 06:49 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Figured mahogany
with two additional leaves with wooden storage box. (4 pieces)
Height 28 3/4 in. by Width 54 3/4 in. by Depth 125 in. (Fully extended)
Please note that this lot will not be on view during the sale exhibition. It is located at our Long Island City, New York storage facility. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale please make an appointment with the Americana department at 212-606-7130.
Israel Sack, Inc., New York.
Dorothy Michaels Pratt and Richard Pratt, Second Treasury of Early American Homes, New, Revised, and Enlarged Edition, (New York: Hawthorne Books, 1959).
This table was exhibited for many years with a comparable table in the Gore House, Cambridge, Massachusetts. A related table originally owned by the Appleton family is in the Harrison Gray Otis House, Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities and illustrated in Helen Comstock, American Furniture, plate 568.