Image from the NEH Myers Conservation Survey, color-corrected by Pat Cagney.

Secrétaire à abattant

ManufacturerAttributed to Bankson and Lawson (American, active 1785-1792)

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1785-1792

MediumMahogany | Satinwood | Tulip poplar | Brass

DimensionsOverall: 64 x 40 x 19 1/2 in. (162.6 x 101.6 x 49.5 cm)

Credit LineMoses Myers House Collection, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA

Object number71.33.1

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, MMH, Parlor

DescriptionDesk with fall front, tambour above and three equal drawers below. Veneer and banding. Inlaid with an eagle within a footed cartouche. Lunette of oak leaves in the apron and a similar design in the quarters on the face of the fall front. Bail handles and oval escutcheon plates on drawers.

Exhibition HistoryMyers House Published ReferencesRonald Hurst and Jonathan Prown, _Southern Furniture: 1680-1830, The Colonial Williamsburg Collection_ (Williamsburg: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1997), 366-368, fig. 115.1. Sumpter Priddy III, J. Michael Flanigan, and Gregory R. Weidman, "The Genesis of Neoclassical Style in Baltimore Furniture," _American Furniture_, edited by Luke Beckerdite (Hanover: Chipstone Foundation, 2000): 61-62, 80. See also eagle inlays p. 69, fig. 19, fig. 25; p. 78, fig. 28; p. 79, fig. 29. ISBN: 1-58465-055-9 Martha R. Wyatt, with the assistance of Gary E. Baker. "Work of the Month," Chrysler Museum of Art Website. March 2004: http://www.chrysler.org/wom/wom0304.asp.