Phyfe Empire sofas

Two Sofas in the Duncan Phyfe Empire Style
Reprinted from Colonial Furniture in America
By Luke Vincent Lockwood, 1926

Figure CIV

Duncan Phyfe style
Carved top rail
Fronts of the arms are carved in a long acanthus leaf, and are also on the legs, which are cabriole terminating in an animal's paw.
Front rail of the seat is reeded.

Figure CV

Back is divided into three panels, the outer ones carved in a design of sprays of wheat fastened with a ribbon wound about the stems, and at the center are two cornucopias full of spears of wheat
On the outside of the arms are again spears of wheat
On the legs are cornucopias with wheat and terminating in eagles' heads
Across the front rail are curved leaves and rosettes
The arms have splats, each consisting of a curved rectangular design, and below are three sets of three balls