Canterbury [sheet music storage rack]
Duncan Phyfe & Sons American
One can imagine this canterbury brimming with sheet music—perhaps for opera, classical, or popular tunes—set beside a piano, or neatly stowed underneath, awaiting the next recital. Its design closely follows figure 1966, a music book stand of "an elegant but rather expensive construction," from John Claudius Loudon’s Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture and Furniture (1833). This canterbury once adorned the home of Eliza Phyfe Vail (1801-1890), whose father and brothers operated the furniture manufactory where it, and other suites of furniture for her home, was made.
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