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Sideboard with serpentine-shaped front; wide doors top to bottom at either side of two drawers above two doors; ebony and holly wood banded inlay around top edge; inlaid spandrels in all four corners of all four doors; beaded edge to drawer fronts with band of holly wood inlay just inside; lion's head brasses on drawers; square tapered legs with spade feet at corners; front central legs are tapered and five sided with spade feet conforming to shape; thin banded inlay to legs at front, brass execution on top drawer; brass keyholes throughout; one board mahogany top.
sideboards (furniture)
brass (alloy)
ebony (wood)
holly (wood)
mahogany (wood)
pine (wood)
Federal
Sideboard
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
40 1/4 x 71 3/4 x 31.875 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.258
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