A product of increasingly function-specific room usages witnessed as the 18th century progressed, the sideboard illustrated here has several variations within the same region. A comparable example, also from Massachusetts, is illustrated in Luke Vincent Lockwood, Colonial Furniture in America, vol. I, (New York, 1926), p. 373, fig. 42, as is an additional Massachusetts sideboard with a history in the family of Joseph Hay of Sandwich with similary canted central serpentine in Sack, American Antiques from the Israel Sack Collection, vol. 2, no. 14, p. 335, fig. 833. A New Hampshire sideboard, possibly form the cabinetmaking shop of Julius Barnard of Hanover, employs the same overall form as well as pendant flower inlay on the stiles, though the Barnard example flowers are inverted, and have angled veneers at the door and drawer perimeters (see, Margaret J. Moody, American Decorative Art at Dartmouth (Hanover, New Hampshire, 1981), p. 23, fig. 23). These different permutations of the same form and decoration demonstrate not only the phenomena of regional design preference, but also the degree to which aesthetic notions travelled within localized areas.