A CLASSICAL MAHOGANY VENEERED PEDESTAL-END SIDEBOARD

NEW YORK CITY, 1810-1820

Details

A CLASSICAL MAHOGANY VENEERED PEDESTAL-END SIDEBOARD
New York City, 1810-1820
The arched splash board flanked by two square plinths, each fitted with a single cockbeaded drawer, over a rectangular top with bowed front above a conforming case fitted with five cockbeaded drawers over six cockbeaded doors, the outer four embellished with astragal-shaped reserves and the outer two flanked by reeded stiles surmounted by floral-carved plaques, on eight ring-turned and reeded legs fitted with socket castors
52½in. high, 81¾in. wide, 22¼in. deep

Provenance

Berry B. Tracy, New York City

Lot Essay

A sideboard of similar design is illustrated in Berry B. Tracy, Federal Furniture and Decorative Arts at Boscobel (New York, 1981), no. 40, p.66. As Tracy notes, this sideboard design with "pedestal-ends" was depicted as the frontispiece to the 1810 New York Book of Prices (Tracy, pp.25,62).