Decorative Arts & Design
Tambour Desk
Permanent ExhibitionMetalworkFurniture
Details
- Author / creator
- John Seymour (American, 1738–1818)
- Object type
- Furniture
- Date or period
- c. 1800
- Dimensions summary
- Overall: 105.4 × 96 × 49.9 cm
- Maker or workshop
- John Seymour
- Period / style
- Neoclassical / Regency
- Place of origin
- America
- Acquisition method
- Purchase
- Credit line
- Purchased with the Ashcombe City Council acquisitions budget, 1987
About this object
The severely rectilinear form, delicate inlay, sliding tambour doors, and blue-painted interior of this small desk relate it to the work of the English-born cabinetmaker John Seymour and his son, Thomas, who were in partnership in Boston during the years around 1800. The Seymours made some of the most sophisticated American furniture in the Hepplewhite style, so-called from the Englishman whose publication of furniture designs was widely influential on both sides of the Atlantic.
Materials and technique
Mahogany, brass and enamel pulls
