Duncan Phyfe Round Mahogany Dining Table
An American Federal mahogany circular dining table, early 19th century attributed to the New York manufacture and from the workshop of Duncan Phyfe. Height 28.35 in. Diameter 50.59 in.
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- Phyfe, Duncan - Duncan Phyfe (1768 - 1854) is the best-known New York cabinet maker of the early and mid-19th century.
He made use of the forms and ornament of classical Greece and Rome and gave his name to the generic term for American furniture in the neoclassical style.
Duncan Phyfe style furniture was made into the mid 19th century, with a revival in the late 19th/early 20th century - Attributed - A cataloguing term where the item in the opinion of the cataloguers, is a of the period of the artist, craftsman or designer, and which probably in whole or part is the work of that person.
- Mahogany - Mahogany is a dense, close grained red-coloured timber from the West Indies and Central America. It was first imported into Europe in the the early 18th century and its use continued through the 19th century. It was popular for furniture making because of its strength, the wide boards available, the distinctive grain on some boards, termed flame mahogany and the rich warm colour of the timber when it was polished.. The "flame" was produced where a limb grew out from the trunk of the tree, and this timber was usually sliced into veneers for feature panels on doors, backs and cornices.
Some terms used to describe mahogany relate to the country from which it originally came, such as "Cuban" mahogany, "Honduras" mahogany etc. However unless the wood has been tested the names assigned are more a selling feature, rather than a true indication of the timber's origin.
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