Detail View: The AMICA Library: Cellarette
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AMICA ID:
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CMA_.2000.72.1-2
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AMICA Library Year:
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2001
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Object Type:
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Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
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Creator Name:
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Phyfe, Duncan and Son
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Creator Nationality:
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American
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Creator Role:
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artist
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Creator Dates/Places:
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1768 - 1854
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Duncan Phyfe and Son
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Title:
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Cellarette
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Title Type:
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Primary
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View:
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Full View
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Creation Date:
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c. 1840
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Creation Start Date:
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1835
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Creation End Date:
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1845
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Materials and Techniques:
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chiefly rosewood veneer with pine and poplar secondary woods
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Classification Term:
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Furniture and woodwork
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Dimensions:
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Overall: 59.4cm x 72.4cm x 50.2cm
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Cleveland Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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ID Number:
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2000.72.1
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ID Number:
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2000.72.2
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Credit Line:
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John L. Severance Fund
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Rights:
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Provenance:
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(Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., NY)
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Context:
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Easily the most famous American furniture maker, Duncan Phyfe (born Scotland, 1768-1854) gave his name to New York furniture that is similar to English Sheraton pieces of the early 19th century-characterized by simple designs, straight lines, thin legs, and classical ornamentation. Despite the fashionable success enjoyed by his work, Phyfe responded to stylistic changes, and by the 1830s had evolved a more severe mode that has been termed the "Grecian plain style." This sideboard and its cellarette (a cabinet for storing wine or liquor) are superb examples of that taste, relying for their effect on relatively simple structural forms with ornamentation largely limited to the use of boldly patterned rosewood veneers.
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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CMA_.2000.72.1-2.tif
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