The exaggerated serpentine form of this sideboard gives it a visually robust appearance unmatched by most of its contemporaries. Probably from the same shop as a sideboard in the collection of the Winterthur Museum, the two sideboards are identical in appearance except that this example fashions icicle rather than bellflower inlay on the legs, with the inlay on each enclosed by identical looped line stringing. In addition, the side drawers on this sideboard are paneled versus plain, and although they share the same drawer and slide arrangement, the top two drawers on the Winterthur example are sham and work as a single unit.

The attribution to Newport is based upon the presence of chestnut and tulip secondary woods as well as the bellflower inlay on the Winterthur sideboard, the execution of which relates to a labeled John Townsend dining table. See Montgomery, American Furniture: The Federal Period (New York: Viking Press, 1966), fig. 359.