A REGENCY EBONY-INLAID MAHOGANY SIDEBOARD

CIRCA 1805

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A REGENCY EBONY-INLAID MAHOGANY SIDEBOARD
Circa 1805
The superstructure comprising a central convex mirror flanked by two compartments, each fitted with a door which swivels to reveal a rounded cutlery box and surmounted by a swivelling serpent-form candlearm on rounded frame, the whole joined by a scrolled brass splashrail with lion mask roundels, the rectangular case with frieze drawer over a concave drawer flanked on the left by a deep drawer with front section swivelling to reveal three cutout bottleholders and lead-lined compartment with bottle divides, the right side with a door enclosing a canted compartment and with swivelling commode drawer to the side, on slight incurved legs headed by panels, the whole with ebony panels and geometric line inlay, the drawer with black-painted inventory number 3707H and white chalk number P3234, drawer pulls replaced
64in. (164cm.) high overall, 87in. (223cm.) wide, 28in. (71cm.) deep

Lot Essay

While the elaborate superstructure with cutlery boxes and mirror is quite unusual, a 'sideboard table' incorporating a similar convex mirror on brass framework features in Thomas Sheraton's The Cabinet Dictionary of 1803, vol.II, pl.71. Another sideboard in The Dictionary is fitted with a revolving door with cutouts for bottles (pl.70) such as features on this example.

A sideboard with closely related superstructure was sold Sotheby's New York, 21-22 April 1995, lot 275 ($7,700).

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