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table
table article of furniture employed for household or ecclesiastical purposes. Elaborately decorated tables of wood or metal were known in ancient Egypt and Assyria, and the Greeks used small tables of low construction to be placed beside a couch. During the Roman Empire massive rectangular pieces w... Read more
furniture
furniture properly such movables as chairs, tables, and beds; it is extended to include draperies, rugs, mirrors, lamps, and other furnishings. In its gradual evolution from periods of earliest civilization, the history of furniture parallels the progress of culture. Furniture has been made in a gr... Read more
American art
American art the art of the North American colonies and of the United States. There are separate articles on American architecture , North American Native art , pre-Columbian art and architecture , Mexican art and architecture , Spanish colonial art and architecture , and Canadian art and arc... Read more
Macbeth
Macbeth , d. 1057, king of Scotland (1040-57). He succeeded his father as governor of the province of Moray c.1031 and was a military commander for Duncan I. In 1040 he killed Duncan in battle and seized the throne. Possibly of royal descent himself, he acquired a direct claim to the throne through ... Read more
Macbeth
Macbeth , d. 1057, king of Scotland (1040-57). He succeeded his father as governor of the province of Moray c.1031 and was a military commander for Duncan I. In 1040 he killed Duncan in battle and seized the throne. Possibly of royal descent himself, he acquired a direct claim to the throne through ... Read more
Cawdor
Cawdor , village, Highland, NE Scotland, SW of Nairn. Cawdor Castle, the earliest remaining piece dating from 1454, was represented by Shakespeare , following tradition, as the scene of the slaying (1040) of Duncan by Macbeth . ... Read more
Henry Duncan Graham Crerar
Henry Duncan Graham Crerar , 1888-1965, Canadian general in World War II. He fought in World War I and later headed the Royal Military College. In 1940 he was made chief of the Canadian general staff. In 1941 he was given command of the Canadian 2d Division Overseas; in 1944 he became commander of t... Read more
Iain Duncan Smith
Iain Duncan Smith 1954-, British politician, leader (2001-3) of the Conservative party , b. Edinburgh. Educated at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, he served in the Scots Guards from 1975 to 1981, leaving the army for a series of business positions, mainly in the defense industry and publish... Read more
Glamis
Glamis , village, Angus, E Scotland. King Malcolm II died (1034) nearby, and a sculptured cross in the village is known as King Malcolm's Gravestone. Macbeth was thane of Glamis, and the castle, seat of the earl of Strathmore, is erroneously claimed to be the scene of Duncan's murder in Shakespear... Read more
Nairn
Nairn , town (1991 pop. 7,721), Highland, N Scotland, at the mouth of the Nairn River on Moray Firth. It is a tourist resort and fishing harbor. Other industries include dairy and crop farming and whiskey distilling. Granite is quarried. Cawdor Castle, the legendary scene of the murder of Duncan b... Read more

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Duncan Phyfe
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Duncan Phyfe Duncan Phyfe (1768-1854), Scottish-born American...furniture makers in the United States. Duncan Phyfe was born at Loch Fannich. He probably...name until, in 1837, it was changed to Duncan Phyfe and Son. Ten years later, because he... Read more
American art
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...models, although in furniture some variations appeared in the work of talented artisans such as Samuel McIntire and Duncan Phyfe . In the first half of the 18th cent. a growing demand for portrait painting attracted such artists as John Smibert... Read more

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An important rosewood and cast-iron gueridon attributed to Duncan Phyfe and Sons.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 5/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...Fig. 1), linking the table to Duncan Phyfe, one of New York City's preeminent...dating, for the firm was known as Duncan Phyfe and Sons only between 1837 and...when Michael (d.c. 1840) and James Duncan Phyfe (b. 1797) were in business with... Read more
Duncan Phyfe, revisitus.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...fronts of the shop and warehouse of Duncan Phyfe, a man whose name, more than any...remain matters of speculation. Duncan Phyfe was born in Scotland in 1768 and...published Furniture Masterpieces of Duncan Phyfe, the first monograph on an American... Read more
R.T.H. Halsey: American Wing founder and champion of Duncan Phyfe.(New York Metropolitan Museum, American Wing)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...of trustees, thanked Halsey for the complete showing of furniture by Duncan Phyfe, the New York cabinet-maker, for the loan of his collection of silver...IV) ended up permanently at the museum. [9] Halsey's fascination with Duncan Phyfe app Read more
New York furniture for the Stirlings of Wakefield, Saint Francisville, Louisiana.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 5/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...commissioned from the eminent New York City cabinetmaker Duncan Phyfe by the Louisiana planter Lewis Stirling (Fig. 1, left...Stirlings' purchase is one of three major documented sales of Phyfe's work in the late Grecian style and is a unique instance... Read more
Historic Deerfield.(Current and coming)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 5/1/2008; ; 345 words ; Honor'e Lannuier, Samuel McIntire, Duncan Phyfe, John and Thomas Seymour, and John Townsend are among the cabinetmakers whose furniture is featured in a new semipermanent exhibition... Read more
The American sofa table.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 5/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; In 1950 Albert Sack published one of the few sofa tables produced in America, a New York example in the style of Duncan Phyfe.(1) Sixteen years later Charles E Montgomery declared sofa tables the rarest of all American drop-leaf tables. He added... Read more
The Livingstons' best New York City Federal furniture.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 5/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...furniture makers - at least not until the arrivals of Duncan Phyfe (1768-1854) by 1792 and Charles Honore Lannuier (1779...examples from the city. Certainly the attention lavished upon Phyfe and Lannuier has left in the shadows a significant body... Read more
Bonhams: a Federal caned settee with a carved cornucopia crest rail will be sold at Bonhams's first ever East Coast auction of American furniture.(CURRENT and coming)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 1/1/2009; ; 233 words ; ...highlights are a New York Federal carved mahogany and caned settee that specialists at Bonhams are attributing possibly to Duncan Phyfe or one of his contemporaries. Dating from the first quarter of the nineteenth century, it features a cornucopia design... Read more
Queries.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 2/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...Philadelphia, Boston, Salem, Baltimore, and Albany, Emphasis will be placed on key cabinetmakers of this period including Duncan Phyfe, Honore Lannuier, and Joseph Meeks and Sons of New York City, Anthony Quervelle, Ephraim Haines, and Michael Bouvier... Read more
Honore Lannuier's furniture and patrons: recent discoveries. (19th century New York City cabinetmaker)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 5/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...eventually the acknowledged expert on, the furniture of Duncan Phyfe (1768-1854), especially of the period 1800 to 1820, as well as the furniture of Phyfe's many able competitors in New York. Between 1892 and... Read more