Card table

Attributed to Duncan Phyfe American, born Scotland

1810–15

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Duncan Phyfe (1770-1854) was a Scottish émigré who established one of the most successful furniture-making operations in New York in the early nineteenth century. Phyfe produced furniture in the newest, Neoclassical style which was widely sought after by affluent consumers in New York and beyond in places as far south as the Caribbean. Thomas Cornell Pearsall (1768-1820), a New York merchant, commissioned Duncan Phyfe to make the spectacular swivel-top "pillar-and-claw" card tables for his family home on the East River known as "Belmont." The Pearsalls arranged Belmont with these card tables and another suite of chairs and sofas (1960.4.1-15), donated to the Metropolitan Museum in 1960, with a sella curulis or curule style crossed base designed after ancient Roman folding chairs.

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Title: Card table
Maker: Attributed to Duncan Phyfe (American (born Scotland), near Lock Fannich, Ross-Shire, Scotland 1768/1770–1854 New York)
Date: 1810–15
Geography: Made in New York, New York, United States
Culture: American
Medium: Mahogany, mahogany veneer, white pine, yellow poplar, rosewood, brass, iron
Dimensions: 29 5/8 × 36 × 18 1/2 in. (75.2 × 91.4 × 47 cm)
Credit Line: Purchase, Ronald S. Kane Bequest, in memory of Berry B. Tracy, 2018
Object Number: 2018.29.2
Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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