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Sideboard

Object number

RIF2172

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

40 1/2 × 57 × 23 1/2 in. (102.87 × 144.78 × 59.69 cm)

Date

1790–1800

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Probably made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany (primary); yellow poplar and pine (secondary)

Style

Hepplewhite, Federal

Provenance

Nathan Liverant and Son, Colchester, Connecticut, 1988

Associated names

Nathan Liverant and Son

Notes

The drawers are lined with early Providence, Rhode Island, newspapers.

Bibliography

"Nathan Liverant and Son advertisement," Antiques 133, no. 1 (January 1988): 26, ill.
Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650–1830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 436n1.