A FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY SIDEBOARD

NEW YORK OR NEW JERSEY, 1790-1810

Details

A FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY SIDEBOARD
New York or New Jersey, 1790-1810
The rectangular top with serpentine facade and string-inlaid edges above a conforming case fitted with a bowed long drawer over bowed cupboard doors flanked by short drawers above cupboard doors, all string-inlaid with quarter fans, on tapering square legs with pendant-husk inlay and banded cuffs
38in. high, 77¼in. wide, 31in. deep

Provenance

Francis Bealey, Essex, Connecticut

Literature

Francis Bealey advertisement, Antiques (February 1987), p. 354.

Lot Essay

With its quarter-fan inlay and striated reserves, this sideboard illustrates hallmarks of New York-made Federal furniture. Its close resemblance to a sideboard labelled by Matthew Egerton, Jr. of New Brunswick, New Jersey, however, indicates that similar devices were also used in the adjoining state (John Walton ad, Antiques (July 1950), p. 11). For a nearly identical sideboard categorized as "Best," see Albert Sack, Fine Points of Furniture: Early American (New York, 1952), p. 219.

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