found: Work cat.: Tambour desk and bookcase, via the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute museum objects digital image collection, Sept. 6, 2004.
found: Montgomery, C.F. American furniture, 1966:p. 218 (Tambour desk is the modern term for a popular form frequently made in New England. The American tambour desk has upright reeded or slatted shutters that cover up the nest of drawers and pigeonholes. These shutters slide from the center outward in a vertical plan in contrast to the English tambour writing table)
found: AAT online, Feb. 9, 2006(tambour desks, American desks with upright reeded or slatted shutters that cover up the nest of drawers and pigeonholes. Distinct from English tambour writing tables, which are a modification of the cylinder desk with tambour shutters instead of a curved solid cylinder. Distinct from rolltop desks which close by means of a flexible shutter of convex shape composed of horizontal slats of wood)
found: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Collections Online, Feb. 20, 2006:Accession no. 1984-98-2 (Tambour writing desk)
found: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Collections, via WWW, Feb. 12, 2005:Accession no. 45.231 (Tambour desk)
notfound: Web 3
