Marks Label on underside: Warranted / Cabinet Work / of all Kinds, Made and Sold by / Joseph Short, / At his shop Merrimack Street, between / Market-Square and Brown's Wharf, / Newburyport. / All orders for Work will be gratefully / received and punctually executed.
Also, in ink in script: Lt. (?) Colonel Mr. John B _______ [Bowdingham or Bowarding?]
Provenance Harrison Ross Steeves, Sr. (1881-1981), Fairfield, Connecticut; Mrs. Burges R. Steeves (1914-2004), Birmingham, Alabama; gift to the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, 1995
