A FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY SIDEBOARD
Property from the Estate of A. Leon Fergenson and Constance Friend Fergenson
A FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY SIDEBOARD

MASSACHUSETTS, 1790-1810

Details
A FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY SIDEBOARD
Massachusetts, 1790-1810
40¾ in. high, 59 in. wide, 22¾ in. deep
Provenance
Mrs. Charles Frederick Morris Stark, Concord, New Hampshire
Israel Sack Inc., New York, 1968
Literature
American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection (New York), vol. II, p. 486, no. 1184.

Lot Essay

The arched apron of this sideboard is related to several sideboards and servers from Massachusetts, including one in the Karolik Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated in Edwin J. Hipkiss, Eighteenth-Century American Arts: The M. and M. Karolik Collection (Boston, 1941), pp. 88-89, cat. no. 48.

Charles Frederick Morris Stark was a descendant of Brigadier General John Stark (1728-1822). General Stark took command in August 1777 of New Hampshire troops and won the Battle of Bennington.

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