ATTRIBUTED TO DUNCAN PHYFE, NEW YORK, 1800-1820

Rare as a caned, rather than upholstered, form, this settee is nearly identical to at least three other examples, all of which may have been made in the shop of Duncan Phyfe. The first is in the Winterthur Museum, Delaware, the second in the Mabel Brady Garvan collection at Yale University, and the third in the M. and M. Karolik collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. See Charles Montgomery, American Furniture of the Federal Period (New York, 1966) p. 312-313, fig. 278; Patricia E. Kane, Three Hundred Years of American Seating Furniture (Boston, 1976) p. 245, fig. 229; and Edwin J. Hipkiss, Eighteenth Century American Arts, Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, 1941) p. 188, fig. 123. A fourth related example once in the collection of Israel Sack, Inc., and now in a private collection, was sold Sotheby's New York, June, 1993, lot 527.