Lot Essay
A similar piece is illustrated in Nancy McClelland Duncan Phyfe and The English Regency (New York, 1939)p. 167, pl. 149.
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A FEDERAL CARVED MAHOGANY SETTEE
SHOP OF DUNCAN PHYFE, NEW YORK, 1800-1815
The scrolled tripartite crestrail centering a ribbon-tied double cornucopiae and wheat shaft panel flanked by tablets with carved fasces above outswept S-scrolled arms headed by reeded scrolled supports continuing to a straight reeded front rail, on reeded and volut-carved animal paw feet, fitted with castors--32in. high, 89in. wide, 26½in. deep
SHOP OF DUNCAN PHYFE, NEW YORK, 1800-1815
The scrolled tripartite crestrail centering a ribbon-tied double cornucopiae and wheat shaft panel flanked by tablets with carved fasces above outswept S-scrolled arms headed by reeded scrolled supports continuing to a straight reeded front rail, on reeded and volut-carved animal paw feet, fitted with castors--32in. high, 89in. wide, 26½in. deep
Provenance
Bernard & S. Dean Levy, 1978
Literature
Allison M. Eckardt, "Living with Antiques: A collection of American neoclassical furnishings on the East Coast," The Magazine ANtiques (May, 1987)p. 863, pl. IX.