The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Armchair

Attributed to Duncan Phyfe (1770–1854)

Date:: 1791–1818
Geography:: Mid-Atlantic, New York, New York, United States
Culture:: American
Medium:: Primary: mahogany; Secondary: cherry (medial braces), ash or oak (stubb tenon feet).
Dimensions:: 32 7/8 x 21 1/2 x 24 3/4 in. (83.5 x 54.6 x 62.9 cm)
Classification:: Furniture
Credit Line:: Gift of C. Ruxton Love Jr., 1960
Accession Number:: 60.4.2

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 728

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: 60.4.2 in yellow chalk on bottom of left and right medial brace. Stamped on inside of back seat rail, right side up: THOMAS CORNELL PEARSALL MADE/FOR HIM BY DUNCAN PHYFE, and on bottom of right medial brace (barely visible), also .3 on inside front rail. .2 stamped on inside front seat rail: MRS. HENRY WILMERDING PAYNE. .3, 60.4.3 in yellow chalk on bottom of right medial brace.
Provenance

By tradition made for the merchant Thomas Cornell Pearsall (1768-1820) and his wife Frances Buchanan (b. 1779), who married in 1799 and lived at 43 Wall Street from 1800-1816. A 1946 Parke-Bernet catalogue traces the ownership to the Pearsalls' daughter Phoebe Pearsall (1813-1895) who lived at 3 Waverly Place and later at 175 Madison Avenue, New York; her niece Frances Pearsall Bradhurst (1834-1907) (Mrs. Augustus Field); her daughter Mary Field (1860-1942) (Mrs. Henry Wilmerding Payne); her nices Frances Field Walker (Mrs. Samuel S. Walker) and Mary Field Hoving (Mrs. Osgood F. Hoving), until 1946; C. Ruxton Love, 1946-1960.
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Who
Duncan Phyfe (66)
What
Costume (41,681)

Wood (7,651)

Furniture (5,725)

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Chairs (1,486)

Oak (1,089)

Mahogany (974)

Armchairs (523)

Cherry (150)

Suspenders (52)

Tenons (2)
Where
North and Central America (81,404)

United States (78,109)

New York (2,785)

New York City (1,835)
In the Museum
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