拍品专文
This work table is similar to an example bearing the Partition Street label of Duncan Phyfe (sold in these Rooms, Highly Important American Furniture from the Collection of Dr. C. Ray Franklin, 13 October 1984, lot 457). Phyfe worked at 35 Partition Street from 1806 to 1817, when the Street was re-named Fulton. Though both the table offered here and that with Phyfe's label are of the same form, with veneered and reeded cases on turned and reeded legs, differences in the shape of the legs and details in the cases indicate the example offered here may have been produced in a competing shop. The form was certainly known by many of New York's early nineteenth-century cabinetmakers; as Charles F. Montgomery notes, the 1810 New York Book of Prices described "An Astragal End Work Table" with an option of "incising with reeds, and reeded the square part of the legs to correspond..." that added one four shillings to the base price of thirty-five shillings (cited in Montgomery, American Furniture: The Federal Period (New York, 1966), p. 417).