attributed to John and Thomas Seymour, Boston, circa 1800-1815, highly figured maple and mahogany veneers, tambour doors centering a tiger maple inlaid prospect door, centering a large patera depicting the American Federal eagle, inlaid ivory escutcheons, desk cubbies with pale blue painted interiors in keeping with much of the Seymour's work, 49 x 40-1/5 x 17 in.
Provenance: R.T. Haines Halsey, a trustee and unofficial curator at the opening of the American wing at the Metropolitan Museum. Israel Sack, New York, purchased September 2000 (accompanied by invoice and write-up); Collection of Karen Shackleford Moore, Baltimore, Maryland
 
Literature: According to the Sack receipt, illustrated in The Handbook of the American Wing, p. 192; also illustrated in Homes of Our Ancestors by R.T. Haines Halsey and Tower, p. 19.
 
        
        
        
        
        
     
                
            
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                R.T. Haines Halsey, a trustee and unofficial curator at the opening of the American wing at the Metropolitan Museum. Israel Sack, New York, purchased September 2000 (accompanied by invoice and write-up); Collection of Karen Shackleford Moore, Baltimore, Maryland
 
         
                        
                                            
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