PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE AREA, CIRCA 1810

With its fan-inlaid top, leaf-carved legs and inlaid central drop panel, this impressive sideboard is among the most fully developed examples known of a form popular in the area of coastal southern New Hampshire and southern Maine in the early 19th century. The fine spool turnings of the upper legs is closely related to a privately owned work table illustrated in Brock Jobe, Portsmouth Furniture (Hanover, New Hampshire, 1993, cat. no. 67). Another sideboard of similar design is attributed to the firm of Judkins and Senter (ibid., cat. no. 37). This form also relates to examples now attributed to the Greenland, New Hampshire shop of Joseph Clark, and it is possible that this sideboard was made in this town slightly south of Portsmouth (see Hardimon, Thomas, "Veneered Furniture of Cumston and Buckminster, Saco, Maine" Antiques (May 2001), pp. 753-761.