Unknown American
Sideboard

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Sideboard
Datec. 1785–1815
Made inNew York , New York, United States
MediumMahogany and unidentified inlay; yellow-poplar, eastern white pine, and black cherry
Dimensions40 1/4 × 74 × 28 1/4 in. (102.2 × 188 × 71.8 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.69.199
Current Location
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
Bayou Bend Dining Room
On view

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Description

The sideboard was introduced during the Neoclassical period. George Hepplewhite remarked, “The great utility of this piece of furniture has procured it a very general reception; and the conveniences it affords render a dining-room incomplete without a sideboard.” Indeed, the sideboard proved invaluable, being used to store silver flatware, napkins, tablecloths, and spirits. 

Technical notes: Mahogany, unidentified inlay; eastern white pine (framing boards on the underside of the top, sides, partitions, back, back section of the bottom, the left and right drawer fronts, bottoms, and blocks, the upper and lower laminations of the central drawer, drawer runners), yellow-poplar (framing on the underside of the top, drawer sides and backs, central drawer bottom, middle lamination of the drawer front), black cherry (drawer dividers, doors, bottom below the doors, and leg posts). The hardware is original.

Book excerpt: David B. Warren, Michael K. Brown, Elizabeth Ann Coleman, and Emily Ballew Neff. American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection. Houston: Princeton Univ. Press, 1998.


Provenance[Israel Sack, Inc., New York]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, 1951; given to MFAH, 1969.
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