Step Back Cupboard, True Antique Salesman Sample/Apprentice Piece James Thrall Soby where he kept a large

where he kept a large studio in the basement of a large Victorian home

with plenty of stains and one small ding to what seems to be a cardboard exterior wrapped in brown paper--as detailed in last photo

together portraying a selection of court figures in fine dress

otherwise some roughness around the lip

this horse rather cries out "love me

Step Back Cupboard, True Antique Salesman Sample/Apprentice Piece James Thrall Soby where he kept a largeI'm not very knowledgable about furniture, tabletop or full scale, but I do know, from looking at a whole lot of tabletop scale chests, that this is of a different ilk than most described as salesman samples; it is truly that, or an apprentice piece, not a piece of doll furniture, and a rare one in my experience for being what I think would correctly be called a step back cupboard, with three drawers below and glass doors encasing three shelves above.