ATTRIBUTED TO DUNCAN PHYFE (1768-1854), NEW YORK, CIRCA 1810

Details

A FEDERAL SATINWOOD AND MAHOGANY VENEERED WRITING TABLE
ATTRIBUTED TO DUNCAN PHYFE (1768-1854), NEW YORK, CIRCA 1810
29 ½ in. high, 22 ½ in. wide, 18 in. deep

Provenance

Israel Sack, Inc., New York
Gloria and Richard Manney
Sold, Sotheby's, New York, 23-24 June 1993, lot 455
Israel Sack, Inc., New York

Literature

Tom Armstrong, Amy Coes, Ella Foshay, and Wendell Garrett, An American Odyssey: The Warner Collection of Fine and Decorative Arts (New York, 2001), pp. 207, 210.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This table is a rare example of Neoclassical American furniture with both front and rear front-facing feet. For a similar example attributed to Phyfe with cabriole legs and paw feet see Sotheby’s, New York, 30 January 1988, lot 1810. Another related example attributed to Phyfe is in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (60.13).

ATTRIBUTED TO DUNCAN PHYFE (1768-1854), NEW YORK, CIRCA 1810

Lot Essay

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