Cleveland Museum of Art

Tambour Desk

John Seymour

Date

c. 1800

Medium

mahogany, brass and enamel pulls

Culture

America, Boston, early 19th Century

Department

Decorative Art and Design

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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.

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