Object Number 1957.0802

Object Name

Desk (Tambour desk)

Category

Furniture

Credit Line/Donor

Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont

Creator (Role)

John Seymour (Furniture maker)
1738-1818

Place of Origin

Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America

Date

1793-1796

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Label; outside bottom of lower drawer; "JOHN SEYMOUR & SON,/ CABINET MAKERS,/ [SQUAR]E"; inscription (in chalk) on rear of upper case back board: "JS"; inscribed (in pencil) on underside of lower drawer: "Repaired & Shalacked by Charles W Holmes Oct 1903 Pleasant St. Saco".

Materials

Mahogany; Mahogany veneer; Ash; Pine, Eastern white

Dimensions (inches)

41.5 (H) , 37.75 (W) , 19.75 (D)

Dimensions (centimeters)

105.41 (H) , 95.89 (W) , 50.17 (D)

Measurement Notes

OW and OD at top of lower case, closed.

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Montgomery, Charles F., et al. 1966 American Furniture: The Federal Period, in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.
• Published: no. 184
[Book] Mussey, Robert D. 2003 The Furniture Masterworks of John and Thomas Seymour.
• Published: cat. no. 3, pp. 140-41.
[Thesis] McBride, Anne. 2012 Consigned to the Account & Risk of John Innes Clark: Network, Trade & A Merchant in Providence, RI, 1768-1808. M.A. Winterthur Winterthur Program in American Material Culture
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