A CLASSICAL CARVED MAHOGANY MUSIC STOOL

NEW YORK, 1810-1820

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A CLASSICAL CARVED MAHOGANY MUSIC STOOL
New York, 1810-1820
The scrolled crest above a carved lyre splat over a circular partially over-upholstered seat and molded seat frame above baluster-and-column turned reeded legs centered by a reeded support, all joined by a quadripartite stretcher, on ring-turned feet with thimble and ball brass castors
31in. high

Lot Essay

A similar music stool attributed to Duncan Phyfe is illustrated in McClelland, Duncan Phyfe and the English Regency (New York, 1939), plate 166, p. 182. Another almost identical stool is in the collection of Winterthur Museum and illustrated in Montgomery, American Furniture: The Federal Period (New York, 1966), cat. 451, pp. 440, 442.

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