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The overall shape of this sideboard relates to others associated with the Seymour shop. The plain mahogany top with a fine checkerboard inlaid edge outset over the top of the legs; a central drawer with two flanking drawers; three cupboard doors below, punctuated by single drawers; the four front and two back ring-turned and reeded columnar legs outset from the carcass are all features associated with the Seymours.
Especially identifiable with Seymour work is the deliberate choice of woods and the careful delineation of the inlay patterns. Flame-figured mahogany is veneered on an oak and pine carcass: the front panels are pine, with a variety of "secondary" veneers, including satinwood, mahogany and flitches of sap wood. Each outside edge of the doors, drawers, top and base are carefully outlined with a thin band of alternating light and dark inlays in several differend patterns. The cross-banding is mitered at the upper and lower joints.
Other construction details indicate the workmanship of the Seymour shop: neat dovetails; carefully gouged screw gains; squared lock shutes; the vertical dividers for cupboards and drawers are tenoned through the backboard and wedged to ensure a tight fit. The use of sapwood flitches and less architectural imagery inlays -- such as the columnar inlays seen on the other sideboards -- indicates that perhaps this piece was made around 1800.
Especially identifiable with Seymour work is the deliberate choice of woods and the careful delineation of the inlay patterns. Flame-figured mahogany is veneered on an oak and pine carcass: the front panels are pine, with a variety of "secondary" veneers, including satinwood, mahogany and flitches of sap wood. Each outside edge of the doors, drawers, top and base are carefully outlined with a thin band of alternating light and dark inlays in several differend patterns. The cross-banding is mitered at the upper and lower joints.
Other construction details indicate the workmanship of the Seymour shop: neat dovetails; carefully gouged screw gains; squared lock shutes; the vertical dividers for cupboards and drawers are tenoned through the backboard and wedged to ensure a tight fit. The use of sapwood flitches and less architectural imagery inlays -- such as the columnar inlays seen on the other sideboards -- indicates that perhaps this piece was made around 1800.