Lot Essay
According to family tradition, this sideboard was purchased cira 1817 from the shop of Duncan Phyfe by Jabez Mead of Greenwhich, Connecticut and remained in the posession of his descendants until 1961.
Details
A LATE FEDERAL MAHOGANY SIDEBOARD, New York, 1810-1820, the stepped rectangular top with bowed front surmounted by an arched splash-board above a conforming case fitted with a central drawer over a cupboard door flanked by a short drawer above a bottle drawer flanked by cupboard doors, each opening to a shelved interior, on cylindrical tapering legs with brass sockets--49in. high, 66½in. wide, 25½in. deep
Provenance
Meade family of Greenwich, CT
Literature
Elisabeth Donaghy Garret, "Living with Antiques: Hatfield Plantation in Washington County, Texas," The Magazine Antiques, vol. 108, no.3 (September, 1975), p. 523, fig. 1