Step Back Cupboard, True Antique Salesman Sample/Apprentice Piece James Thrall Soby with plenty of stains and

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

bow and arrow

I'd guess the young woman who created this sampler did not expect it would be around 200 or so years later

this horse rather cries out "love me

Step Back Cupboard, True Antique Salesman Sample/Apprentice Piece James Thrall Soby with plenty of stains andI'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.