ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS SEYMOUR (1771-1849), BOSTON, 1810-1817

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A FEDERAL MAHOGANY VENEERED DRESSING TABLE
Attributed to Thomas Seymour (1771-1849), Boston, 1810-1817
Label in drawer reads Property of Edith Cluett
71½ in. high, 38 in. wide, 21 in. deep

來源

Howard Reifsnyder, Philadelphia
Sold American Art Association Inc., New York, The Reifsnyder Collection of American Furniture, April 24-27, 1929, lot 545
George A. and Edith Cluett, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Israel Sack, Inc., New York, 1980

出版

House and Garden (November, 1927).
Edward Stratton Holloway, American Furniture and Decoration, Colonial and Federal (Philadelphia, 1928), p. 124, plate 78.
Vernon C. Stoneman, John and Thomas Seymour, Cabinetmakers in Boston 1794-1816 (Boston, 1959), pp. 276-277.
Israel Sack, American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection (New York), vol. VI, p. 1648.

拍場告示

Please note that this piece is virtually identical to, but not the same piece as the one illustrated in Vernon Stoneman's John and Thomas Seymour, Cabinetmakers in Boston 1794-1816 (Boston, 1959).

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拍品專文

This vibrantly veneered dressing table exhibits many of the design and construction characteristics associated with the work of Thomas Seymour. The drawers bear several construction points typically found in the Seymour work: the grain of the drawer bottoms runs from side-to-side and the bottoms slide in grooves cut into the lower ends of the drawer front and sides. Small nails join the drawer back to the drawer bottom, which slightly overlaps the drawer back. Long thin glueblocks butt against each other on long sides and neatly spaced small glueblocks are present underneath the drawer fronts. The sides of the case are built up, a method that was intended to reduce cracking. For more discussion of construction methods specific to the Seymour shop, see Robert D. Mussey, The Furniture Masterworks of John and Thomas Seymour (Salem, 2003), pp. 79-132.

For two virtually identical examples attributed to Thomas Seymour, see a dressing chest with mirror from Winterthur Museum, illustrated in Robert D. Mussey, The Furniture Masterworks of John and Thomas Seymour (Salem, 2003), pp. 264-265, cat. no. 65; and a dressing chest with mirror in the collection of the White House (ibid., pp. 262-263, cat. no. 64.)