I possess a partiality for irregular houses, when you go up and down steps, out of one room into another and when you come upon more rooms when you think you have seen all there are, and where then is a bountiful provision of little halls & passages, and where you find older rooms in unexpected places with lattice windows and green growth pressing through them.
Music Box Chair
Late 19th Century
Acquired by Wm. H. Seward II while traveling in Europe in 1888. Walnut carved and inlaid music box chair. Carved in Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland. Naturalistic twig-carved openwork back centering a stag on inlaid navette-shaped medallion. Serpentine seat with circular medallion. Cabriole legs. When back is tipped back, a music box is revealed in the seat.
