Sale 9268
New York
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14 October 1999
Price realised
USD 17,250
Estimate
A FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY SIDEBOARD Massachusetts, 1790-1810 The rectangular top with inset rounded corners and string-inlaid edges above a conforming case fitted with a string-inlaid drawer centered by an outset rectangular panel with oval reserve with geometric inlaid border over string-inlaid cupboard doors, all flanked by string-inalid short drawers each above a string-inlaid cupboard door all with inlaid diamond keyhole surrounds over a shaped skirt, on string inlaid square legs with geometric and banded cuffs and tapered feet 42in. high, 67in. wide, 25in. deep
Provenance
Valdemar Jacobsen, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
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