A CLASSICAL BRASS-INLAID AND CARVED MAHOGANY LIBRARY TABLE

SCHOOL OF DUNCAN PHYFE (1768-1854), NEW YORK CITY, 1815-1835

Details

A CLASSICAL BRASS-INLAID AND CARVED MAHOGANY LIBRARY TABLE
School of Duncan Phyfe (1768-1854), New York City, 1815-1835
The rectangular top with hinged rectangular leaves with rounded corners above a brass-inlaid apron fitted with a single drawer over two ring-turned and tapering hexagonal faceted columns joined by a similarly decorated stretcher, on acanthus leaf-carved and molded downswept legs with carved animal paw feet and castors
29in. high, 42in. wide, 48in. deep (open)

Provenance

Sotheby's New York, 24 October 1987, lot 460

Lot Essay

The supports, legs and stretcher on a card table made by Duncan Phyfe for John Jacob Astor are almost identical to those on the table offered here (see Nancy McClelland, Duncan Phyfe and the English Regency (New York, 1939), plate 239, p.252).