I know I have followed threads of discussion with designers and manufacturers like Johannes Aasbjerg whose pieces may have exterior visible dovetailing. I have come across this piece and am interested in whether anyone has seen similiar or can help identify. Quite a nice little piece with abolutely no markings. Any comments welcome edited as photos did not make it first go....fingers crossed sorry about homeowner included in one of the pics...also wondering about the wood in the interior middle of the vanity...it was strikingly figured. thanks again for looking
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Those are finger joints. All the cuts are at 90 degrees which makes a joint that looks like clasped fingers. And either board can slip out of the dry fit joint.
Dovetails are slightly angled so that one board can slip out of he dry fit joint, but the other is locked in.
While still rare, finger joints are more common than dovetails in Scandinavian case pieces. For example, Hvidt and Mølgaard case pieces often had these finger joints. (But I don't recognize this as a Hvidt and Mølgaard, and it doesn't look right to be one either...)
The aesthetics of the piece remind me of these solid teak, finger jointed case pieces by Nils Jonsson for Troeds. Perhaps this is an avenue of investigation that might yield something (it isn't Hvidt and Mølgaard, that is for sure).
http://antikmodern.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-shop-nils-jonsson-sideboard....
Oh, and the interior veneer looks like figured teak. I put the higher contrast of the wood down to the fact that it hasn't gotten any UV exposure (the teak in vintage photos/adverts is much higher contrast), and possibly the fact that it is figured (figured wood can be hard to identify because it does all sorts of unusual things).
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