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Pair of Grecian Plain Style Pier Tables

$18,500List Price

About the Item

Attributed to Duncan Phyfe (1770-1854) or D. Phyfe & Son, New York, 1835-1841. Each with an oblong white veined marble top with conforming veneered attenuated cavetto frieze with a fine band of mahogany at the base forming a very narrow architrave, supported on columns, square in plan, that flare out at the base and plain pilasters in back flanking a mirror plate on a plinth base that extends from the pilasters to the columns only. The plinth base is raised on shallow bolection-molded rectangular pads. The tables and marbles are marked No. 1 and No. 2 in black paint. The marbles bare modern labels from the North Carolina Department of State. The attribution to Phyfe is predicated on the relatedness of the elements on the pier tables to numerous pieces of furniture documented to Phyfe in the period 1835-1841 including a pier table, a wardrobe, a secrétaire-à-abattant, a sofa table, a cheval mirror and ladies' writing fire screen, all illustrated in Peter Kenny's Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011), 92,-95, 230-232, 236-237, 240-241, 250-252, 256-257. Those elements include the attenuated cavetto frieze with a narrow band at the bottom of the pier table, wardrobe, secrétaire, and cheval glass and the flared (or cavetto) post of the wardrobe, cheval glass, sofa table and writing fire screen. In this definitive study Kenny notes, "Phyfe's Grecian Plain Style work of the 1830s and 1840s has also been called his architectural furniture because, as one scholar has explained, "architecture and architectural elements dictated" its form. At its best, Phyfe's Grecian Plain style furniture captures the strength, simplicity, and noble repose that characterize the best Greek Revival architecture. Phyfe achieved this effect by using the classical orders, often in abstract form and a quiet yet radiant palette of warm-toned rosewood and mahogany veneers meticulously selected and precisely applied in an architectural manner." This can be seen in the careful handling of the veneers at the corners of the cavetto frieze that appear to flare out like palm fronds above the pillars. This set of pier tables is slightly smaller than is typical of the form, which probably indicates that they were bespoke tables, custom ordered for a specific place and use. Provenance: North Carolina Executive (Governor's) Mansion, Raleigh, NC. The tables date to the period between 1831 and 1840, after the burning of the North Carolina State House when the Governor's house, a Classical Revival brick structure, served as the meeting place for certain sessions of the General Assembly.

Attributed to:
Duncan Phyfe (Cabinetmaker)
Dimensions:
Height: 32.5 in (82.55 cm)Width: 41 in (104.14 cm)Depth: 18 in (45.72 cm)
Style:
Restauration (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Mahogany,Veneer
Place of Origin:
United States
Period:
1830-1839
Date of Manufacture:
1835-1842
Condition:
One table has a replaced back board and both tables have replaced mirror plates. Original marbles, veneered surface re-polished with shellac in the manner of the period.
Seller Location:
New York, NY
Reference Number:
Seller: T-P-15090921stDibs: LU135623459232

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