POSSIBLY DUNCAN PHYFE, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1810

Details

A CLASSICAL MAHOGANY DEMI-LUNE GENTLEMAN'S BUREAU
POSSIBLY DUNCAN PHYFE, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1810
43 ½ in. high; 46 ½ in. wide; 23 in. deep

Provenance

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York

Literature

Elizabeth and Stuart P. Feld, Of the Newest Fashion, Masterpieces of American Neo-Classical Decorative Arts, (New York, 2001), cat. 3, p. 89.
Included in an advertisement for Hirschl & Adler Galleries, The Magazine Antiques, (January, 2000) p. 9.

Exhibited

"Of the Newest Fashion: Masterpieces of American Neo-Classical Decorative Arts", Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 2001-2002.

Lot Essay

A very similar example, attributed to Phyfe, was part of the wedding furniture made for Sophia Miles and George Belden, later part of the collection of Mrs. Giles Whiting. It was illustrated in Helen Comstock, American Furniture, fig. 491 and also in Nancy McClelland, Duncan Phyfe and the English Regency, pl. 250.

A Butler's serving board of similar form, also attributed to Phyfe, is illustrated in an advertisement for C.W. Lyon, The Magazine Antiques, (October, 1943), p. 145.

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