Sofa by Duncan Phyfe
New York’s best-known cabinetmaker in the American Federal style.
Duncan Phyfe (1770–1854) came from Scotland as a child and ran New York’s largest furniture workshop. His Grecian furniture was so popular that the style is sometimes named after him. He is richly represented in the Metropolitan Museum.
Materials: Carved mahogany; silk or horsehair upholstery
Manufacture: Carved frames with lyres, wheat sheaves and drapery; sabre legs or lion’s paws.
Sabre legs and carved lion’s paws, often with brass caps.
Scrolled crest rails carved with drapery or wheat sheaves.