Lot 700

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Description:

Fine Charleston Federal inlaid mahogany and satinwood sideboard South Carolina, circa 1795
shaped top over conforming swell-front case with long center drawer over cupboard doors flanked by two drawers on left and wine drawer with faux double-front on right, resting on square tapered legs, with satinwood and ebony inlays, diamond paterae above line and bellflower on legs and blank patera within satinwood panel centering door.
H38 1/2" W62" D24 3/4"

Provenance: Descended in the Dial family of Charleston, South Carolina.

Literature: For related Charleston sideboards see THE FURNITURE OF CHARLESTON, 1680-1820, Vol. II: Neoclassical Furniture, Bivins and Rauschenberg, 2003, figures NT-8, NT-9, NT-20, NT-21, NT-24, pp.630-649.

Other Notes: This beautifully inlaid sideboard from the early 19th century is a product of one of the many cabinetmakers in Charleston, South Carolina whose master was probably of Scottish descent. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries cabinetmakers in Charleston consisted mainly of emigrants from countries such as England, Scotland, Ireland and Germany. The Scottish-trained cabinetmakers tended to produce sideboards with elliptical centers and straight side bays, a frequent plan for sideboards in Scotland. This sideboard exhibits all of the decorative inlays most often associated with the Scottish shops as well. The rectangular satinwood panel centered with an oval reserve of mahogany had widespread use among the Scottish contingent of cabinetmaking shops in Charleston and is well documented on Charleston case pieces, bedsteads, and table of various styles including sideboards. The diamond or lozenge-shaped inlays of satinwood at the top of the leg stiles is a frequently encountered treatment. Just below the lozenge-shaped satinwood reserve on the sideboard, the leg stile is inlaid with cusped stringing, a two-part circular pellet and a single etched bellflower. This is a commonly used sequence on Charleston sideboards and tables, though the placement is a little out of the ordinary. This inlay treatment is usually reserved for the top of the leg just below the bottom of the case. Also common to Charleston pieces of this group is the inlaid outer edges of the drawers and doors and the single stringing set in approximately an inch from the outer edges. These Scottish type sideboards tend to be smaller in scale, ranging in size from 62" to 67".

This sideboard has a top composed of a single board of mahogany approximately 3/8" thick applied to ladder-type framework, which is typical construction of the period. Secondary woods are red cedar, white pine and yellow pine.

    Condition:
  • Recently refinished with shellac. Minor filled split in top, brasses are replacements. Majority of the light and dark stringing around doors and drawers has been replaced, as has stringing along upper edge of top and three-line inlay at bottom of case. Good repairs to drawer blades and veneer patch at door escutcheon. Very good splice/repair to one back leg. Few other small veneer repairs, overall very good restored condition.


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September 13, 2009 1:00 PM EDT
West Columbia, SC, US

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