Sideboard

Furniture

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Historic Hudson Valley

Name/Title

Sideboard

Entry/Object ID

MP.89.12

Description

Massive sideboard with light-colored maple finials, stencilled decoration, and animal paw feet with eagle brackets: back splash runs between two turned columns topped by spherical finials resting on flared bases; turnings on columns consist of tapering element, spool, straight section, ogee-shaped base; stencilled band of interconnected arches and arrows runs along mid-section of columns and top of back splash; top has veneered half-round molding on three sides; paneled sides; front drawer and door configuration consists of a drawer with stencilled interconnected arch-arrow-and club pattern at either edge flanking center drawer with convex top section and crescent-shaped concave area below; hand-shaped cutouts underneath drawers; three doors below; concave panelled center door with stencilled "leafy" decoration has concave "sides" and is flanked by two raised panel doors; one shelf with crescent-shaped cutout inside each side compartment; below center door is a horizontally-oriented drawer with crescent-shaped concave area below; two nearly three-dimensional columns on front; turnings as follows: Tapering element, flattened vase, straight section, ogee-shaped base on block; muscular paw feet with four toes with acanthus leaf and cross-hatching in center; brackets consist of eagle head turned toward wing; many edges picked out in gilt and black paint; evidence of some gilding or bronze powder on some turnings; odd repair of a series of small blocks glued to bottom surface of top; "HR" in script written on bottom of proper left and right drawers; scribble on bottom of lower center drawer.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Unknown

Attribution

Maker

Date made

circa 1820

Notes

Dates: c. 1835

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Inscription

Transcription

See description

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Overall

Height

64-1/4 in

Width

66-3/8 in

Depth

24 in

Dimension Notes

Display Dimensions: 64 1/4 x 66 3/8 x 24 in. (163.2 x 168.6 x 61 cm)

Material

Maple, Pine, Gilt, Mahogany, Tulip poplar

Condition

Notes

Overall Analysis: See treatment report in object file. New scratches on toes of feet.

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Unknown

General Notes

Note Type

General Note

Note

Joe Butler gave the piece a slightly later date in the caption for an image of the piece in the Magazine Antiques, in part: "a massive mahogany sideboard with stenciled gilt decoration made in New York City,c. 1835."

Note Type

StorageNote

Note

Home Location: Historic Hudson Valley, Montgomery Place, Cross Hall