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Sideboard

Object number

RIF3491

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

41 1/4 × 65 1/2 × 27 1/4 in. (104.775 × 166.37 × 69.215 cm)

Date

1790–1800

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Probably made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany, mahogany veneer (primary)

Style

Hepplewhite, Federal

Provenance

Israel Sack, Inc., New York. Jess Pavey, Birmingham, Michigan; sold to Mr. and Mrs. Adolf Henry Meyer, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; consigned to Sotheby's, New York, January 20, 1996, lot 204. Sotheby's, New York, January 18–19, 2001, lot 761

Associated names

Jess S. Pavey
Israel Sack, Inc.
Adolph Henry Meyer
Sotheby's

Bibliography

Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana: The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Henry Meyer, sale cat. (January 20, 1996), lot 204.
Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana Including Silver, Prints, Folk Art, Furniture, and Property Formerly in the Estate of Ulysses S. Grant, sale cat. (January 18–19, 2001), 275, lot 761, 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.