Neo-Classical Work Table with Lyre Ends, about 1815
Attributed to Thomas Seymour (1771–1848), Boston
Rosewood (secondary woods: mahogany), with brass line inlay and brass-over-wood baguette moldings, gilt-brass and gilt-bronze and ormolu mounts, toe-caps, and castors, and fabric work bag
29 3/4 in. high, 20 5/16 in. wide, 16 3/4 in. deep (in the case), 17 5/8 in. deep (at the feet)
RECORDED: Laura Beach, “Christie’s Americana,” Antiques & The Arts Weekly (July 14, 1995), p. 38 illus. // Stuart P. Feld, Boston in the Age of Neo-Classicism, 1810–1840, exhib. cat. (New York: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1999), pp. 25, 27 illus.
EX COLL.: sale 6548, Sotheby’s, New York, April 15, 1994, no. 297, as “Regency Rosewood Work Table”; sale 8208, Christie’s, New York, June 21, 1995, no. 305 illus.; to [Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, until 1996]; to Jack Warner, Gulf States Paper, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and by descent, until 2019