THE CORDIS FAMILY VERY RARE CLASSICAL BRASS INLAID AND FIGURED MAHOGANY LYRE-BASE GAMES TABLE, ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS SEYMOUR (1771–1848), BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1808-1815

Thomas Cordis (1771-1854) m. Hannah Cordis (1789-1832), Boston, Massachusetts. Thomas Cordis is a descendent of Cord Cordis (1709-1772), proprietor of the British Coffee House in Boston;

Francis Temple Cordis (1817-1890) m. Ruth Ann Prescott (1819-1886), Boston, Massachusetts;

Thomas Francis Cordis (1843-1915) m. Annie Byrd (Bird) Colton (1845-1937), Longmeadow, Massachusetts; 

Thomas Edward Cordis (1884-1936) m. Annie Marguerite Holden (1891-1975), Longmeadow, Massachusetts;

Edward Colton Cordis (1913-2002) m. Mary Elizabeth Walcott Grabe (b. 1904), Litchfield, Connecticut;

Mary Anne Cordis (1951-2018), Suffield, Connecticut.

This table relates directly to a table in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston that furniture scholar Robert Mussey has attributed to the work of Thomas Seymour see Robert D. Mussey, Jr., The Furniture Masterworks of John & Thomas Seymour, (Salem, MA: Peabody Essex Museum, 2003), pp. 358-9, no. 112). Another related table is in the collection of Carolyn and Peter Lynch (see Dean Lahikainen, A Passion for American Art: Selections from the Carolyn and Peter Lynch Collection, (Salem, MA: Peabody Essex Museum, 2019), p. 134) and a third table was illustrated by Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc. advertisement, Magazine Antiques 155:1 (January 1999), p. 7.