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Photo: Courtesy Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Bequest of Charles L. Pendleton, 04.056; photo by Erik Gould
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Sideboard

Object number

RIF4864

Maker

Maker Unknown
Maker, possibly by Thomas Howard, Jr., 1774?1833
Alternate name(s): Thomas Howard

Dimensions

41 × 45 11/16 × 22 in. (104.14 × 116.05 × 55.88 cm)

Date

1795–1810

Current location

Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

Geography

Probably made in Providence, Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany and mahogany veneer (primary); pine and chestnut (secondary)

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Style

Hepplewhite, Federal

Provenance

Charles L. Pendleton (1846–1904), Providence, Rhode Island; bequeathed to the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1904

Associated names

Charles L. Pendleton

See also

Bibliography

Luke Vincent Lockwood, The Pendleton Collection (Providence: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1904), pl. 56, ill.
Bernice B. Osburn and Burl N. Osburn, Measured Drawings of Early American Furniture (Milwaukee, Wisc.: Bruce Publishing Company, 1926), 19, ill.
Verna Cook Salomonsky, Masterpieces of Furniture Design (Michigan: Periodical Publishing Co., 1931), pl. 65.
Hedy B. Landman, "The Pendleton House at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design," Antiques 107, no. 5 (May 1975): 935, ill.
Christopher P. Monkhouse and Thomas S. Michie, American Furniture in Pendleton House (Providence: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1986), 114–115, no. 52, ill.