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Sideboard

Collection Type

  • Furniture

Date

1840-1850

GUSN

GUSN-64266

Description

Mid-Victorian sideboard with feet composed of paired volutes. Serpentine front with pair of hinged doors, decorated with shelf carvings. Doors open to three corresponding drawers. Marble top with marble shelf above it, supported by pierced and carved side brackets. Solid back ending in shaped crest with central medallion of basket and flowers.

Details

Descriptive Terms

sideboards (furniture)
marble (rock)
rosewood (wood)
High Victorian
Rosewood
Marble
Mid-Victorian
Sideboard

Associated Building

Original to Roseland Cottage (Woodstock, Conn.),

Maker

Unknown

Location of Origin

New York

Dimensions

78 1/8 x 52 1/2 x 27 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Margaret Carson Holt

Accession Number

1970.493

Places

New York state (United States)

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