Sideboard with rectangular legs that taper to spade feet. Front legs have alternating blond and ebony diamond inlay. Elongated D-shaped veneer case with central arched opening is fitted with tambour doors and inlaid border; surmounted by drawer with inlaid ovoid paterae. Rounded corners each enclose a square lower drawer with rectangular drawer above.
sideboards (furniture)
brass (alloy)
ebony (wood)
inlay (process)
mahogany (wood)
pine (wood)
embroidering
veneering
Hepplewhite
paterae (motifs)
pine (wood)
Mahogany
Pine
Brass
Veneered
Inlaid
Ebony
Hepplewhite
Tambour
Patera
Sideboard
Original to Hamilton House (South Berwick, Me.),
Unknown
42.375 x 71.5 x 28.25 (HxWxD) (inches)
Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan
1949.372
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