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Insley Blair, curated by the Museum of the City of New York, opening October 8, 1953.  This desk is very similar to DAPC_1963-0888. The City of the Museum of New York appears to have attributed the desk to William Mills based on certain similarities to a labeled piece by Mills & Deming, which was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1934 (Joseph Downs and Ruth Ralston, A Loan Exhibition of New York State Furniture (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1934), no. 148). While the lower case drawers of the two desks are quite similar, the legs and upper case are fairly distinct. When DAPC acquired the image of this desk, DAPC staff were not aware of the reasons for attribution to Mills and questioned that attribution based on the desk's similarity to DAPC_1963-0888, which had been attributed by Stoneman to the Seymours, and its similarity to two labeled desks by Thaxter & Rouse of Boston; DAPC staff therefore attributed the desk to Massachusetts generally."},{"label":"Subjects (AAT)","value":["Tambour desks"]},{"label":"Subjects","value":["Tambour desks"]},{"label":"Bibliography","value":"Advertisement: \"Ginsberg & Levy,\" Antiques 72, no. 3 (September 1957): 199.  Article: V. Isabelle Miller, \"New York Furniture from the Blair Collection,\" Antiques 64, no. 4 (October 1953): 288-9.  Exhibition catalog: V. Isabelle Miller, Furniture by New York Cabinetmakers (New York: The John B. Watkins Company, 1956), 74, no. 123.  Article: Celia Jackson Otto, \"The Secretary with the Tambour Cartonnier,\" Antiques 77, no. 4 (April 1960): 378-81."},{"label":"Exhibition History","value":"Exhibition: \"Furniture by New York Cabinetmakers 1650 to 1860,\" Museum of the City of New York (New York, NY, November 15, 1956-March 3, 1957)."},{"label":"History of Ownership","value":"Formerly in the collection of Mrs. J. Insley Blair; inherited by her daughter, Mrs. Screven Lorillard, who gave it to the Museum of the City of New York."},{"label":"Description","value":"A Federal-style tambour desk constructed of mahogany with curly maple veneer. The upper case has a flat top. Two drawers with veneered fronts bordered by checkered banding and with inlaid kite-shaped keyhole surrounds and stamped metal knobs are located above the tambour doors. The two tambour doors have narrow reeds and lunette-shaped pulls; they are separated by a cabinet door and flanked by veneered pilasters with striped stringing borders. The veneer on the pilasters and the left drawer is cracking; the leftmost knob on the drawers does not match the other three. The cabinet door has a zig-zag patterned banding border, an inlaid diamond-shaped keyhole surround, a curly maple veneered rectangular panel bordered by striped stringing, and a marquise-shaped central panel inlaid with seventeen stars above a union eagle. Behind each tambour door is two drawers with ring pulls and three pigeonholes with arched valances. The top of the lower case folds out to create the writing surface; both exposed edges when the lid is closed are inlaid with checkered banding. The lid supports have cock-bead molding around the edges and lunette-shaped pulls. The four graduated drawers have cock-bead molding around the edges, curly maple veneered rectangular panels bordered by striped stringing, inlaid kite-shaped keyhole surrounds, and molded round metal knobs. The bottom front edge of the lower case is bordered with checkered banding. The double-arched serpentine skirt leads to French feet."},{"label":"Date Digitized","value":"10/17/2017"},{"label":"Materials","value":"Mahogany; Figured maple; Unidentified wood; Unidentified metal"},{"label":"Style","value":["Federal"]},{"label":"Basis of Date","value":"Date range provided by the Museum of the City of New York, 1953, based on the 17 stars in the inlay and the fact that there were 17 states in the US only during 1803-1812."},{"label":"Date (EDTF)","value":"D:00 M:00 Y:1803 - D:00 M:00 Y:1812"},{"label":"Basis of Origin","value":"Place of origin identified as New York by the Museum of the City of New York, 1953.  Place of origin identified as possibly Massachusetts by DAPC staff, 1966.  Place of origin identified as possibly Boston by Brock Jobe, 2015."},{"label":"Place of Origin","value":"Boston, Massachusetts; New York City, New York"},{"label":"Basis of Maker Attribution","value":"Attributed to William Mills by the Museum of the City of New York, 1953.  Based on its similarity to another desk with a contested attribution history, DAPC staff questioned that attribution, 1966."},{"label":"Maker","value":["Mills, William, cabinetmaker"]},{"label":"Object Type","value":["Desk"]},{"label":"Object Use","value":"Case furniture"},{"label":"Category","value":"Furniture"},{"label":"Title","value":"Tambour desk"},{"label":"Date Modified","value":"10/17/2017"}],"description":"Tambour desk","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/626ebaa1-d612-449a-ab3a-0242a412fb80/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"Tambour desk","height":1500,"width":1272,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/626ebaa1-d612-449a-ab3a-0242a412fb80/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/626ebaa1-d612-449a-ab3a-0242a412fb80","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":1500,"width":1272},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/626ebaa1-d612-449a-ab3a-0242a412fb80/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/626ebaa1-d612-449a-ab3a-0242a412fb80/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/626ebaa1-d612-449a-ab3a-0242a412fb80/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/logo"}