Duncan Phyfe and Son / Cellarette / c. 1840

Duncan Phyfe and Son
Cellarette
c. 1840
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Creator Name: Phyfe, Duncan and Son
Creator Qualifier: Firm of
Creator Nationality: American
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: 1768 - 1854
Creator Name-CRT: Duncan Phyfe and Son
Title: Cellarette
Title Type: Primary
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1835
Creation End Date: 1845
Creation Date: c. 1840
Object Type: Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
Classification Term: Furniture and woodwork
Materials and Techniques: chiefly rosewood veneer with pine and poplar secondary woods
Dimensions: Overall: 59.4cm x 72.4cm x 50.2cm
AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
ID Number: 2000.72.1
ID Number: 2000.72.2
Credit Line: John L. Severance Fund
Rights: http://www.clemusart.com/museum/disclaim2.html
Provenance: (Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., NY)
Context: 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.
AMICA ID: CMA_.2000.72.1-2
AMICA Library Year: 2001
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright, The Cleveland Museum of Art

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