Antique Federal New York Duncan Phyfe Mahogany Breakfast Table on Carved Base

  With our absolute highest compliments Bay Colony Antiques takes the utmost pleasure in offering this exceptional and rare antique breakfast table. In our pursuits of the finest American antique furniture still attainable outside of institutions and exclusive private collections we are continually awe struck by the opportunities we find to claim historically important pieces. Our present offering is no exception as it is truly among the finest breakfast tables we have ever encountered and without question a product of the finest moment of furniture production in American history. We attribute this table to the workshop of the famous Duncan Phyfe, a Scottish - American cabinetmaker and furniture carver who established New York's preeminent furniture studio in the first quarter of the 19th century. Our use of the verbiage "attribute" is a formality as there is no question among scholars of this workshops production line as to who could have created a table with such masterful carving wo