Antique Sideboard

17th CENTURY STYLE ОAK REFECTORY TABLE - ОAK CORNER WALL CUPBOARD - ОAK HANGING CORNER CUPBOARD -  ОAK DRESSER BASE

AN OAK DRESSER BASE, the rectangular top above three drawers on baluster turned supports and now on turned feet, late 17th early 18th century with restorations.

A 17th CENTURY STYLE ОAK REFECTORY TABLE, the rectangular top on trestle supports joined by a rail, late 19th early 20th century.

AN ОAK BIBLE ВОХ, the sloping front carved SB 1702, enclosing a well with three drawers, the front carved with vines and grapes, on а later stand, early 19th century.

A GOOD JAMES I STYLE ОAK DRESSER
BASE, the top with molded edge above two drawers applied with rectangular moldings, on six baluster supports and standard feet joined by a flat rail, early 20th century.

A GOOD EARLY GEORGE III ОAK CHEST
of small proportions, the top with molded edge above two short and two long cock beaded drawers on ogee bracket feet, third quarter 18th century.

AN ОAK DRESSER, the upper part with an ogee pediment above three plate rails, the lower part with three frieze drawers above а pair of panel doors flanking three central

drawers, on bracket feet, early 19th century.

AN ОAK СORNER CUPBOARD, the
dentil cornice above an astragal
glazed door enclosing two shaped
shelves, reconstructed.

A GEORGE III CORNER WALL CUP
BOARD, with a rectangular fielded
panel door enclosing three shaped
shelves, third quarter 19th century.

A MID GEORGIAN ОAK DRESSER, the
upper part with an arcaded pediment above three plate rails, the lower part with a pair of paneled doors applied with dummy drawer fronts, flanking a central panel, on stump

supports, mid 18th century.

AN ОAK CORNER WALL CUPBOARD with a molded pediment and а pair of bow front doors inlaid with stars within chevron bandings, enclosing three fitted shelves, early 19th century,

now on a later stand.

AN ОAK CORNER HANGING WALL
CUPBOARD, the door applied with molding and cross banded in mahogany, enclosing three fitted shelves, mid 19th century.

AN ОАК DRESSER, the upper part with a wavy pediment above а plate rail and a pair of panel doors flanking two further plate rails, the lower part with three drawers above a

conforming wavy apron, now on turned front supports, the upper part reconstructed, 18th century.

A GEORGIAN ОAK CORNER CUPBOARD of bow front outline, the molded pediment above a pair of cross banded doors enclosing shelves, late 18th early 19th century.

A GEORGE III О AK STANDING CORNER CUPBOARD, the upper part with а molded pediment above a pair of glazed cupboard doors with bars enclosing shaped shelves, the lower part with a

pair of panel doors, late 18th early 19th century.

AN ОAK DRESSER, the upper part with а cyma recta pediment above two plate rails, the lower part with molded edge above two central shallow drawers and a small spice drawer about

two arched panels, and flanked by a deep cockbeaded drawer on either side, above an open section and a pot board, on bracket feet, reconstructed in the 19th century.

A GEORGIAN ELM HANGING CORNER
CUPBOARD with a plain paneled
door enclosing two shaped
shelves, early 19th century.

A GEORGE III ОAK HANGING CORNER CUPBOARD with a molded pediment above a pair of bow front doors enclosing three shelves, flanked by fluted sides, late 18th century.

A GEORGE III ОAK CORNER CUPBOARD, with a pair of mahogany cross banded bow front doors, shelves lacking, early 19th century.

AN ОAK CABINET of rectangular form, with a pair of cupboard doors each applied with geometric moldings opening to reveal an arrangement of ten drawers about a central cupboard

door enclosing three further drawers, on a later stand with barley twist supports, the cabinet third quarter 17th century, with restorations.

A GEORGIAN ОАК DRESSER, the upper part with three plate shelves, the lower part with a two plank top above three frieze drawers and three dummy drawers, flanked on either side

by a cupboard door, third quarter 18th century.

A GEORGIAN ОAK DRESSER BASE, the rectangular top with molded edge above three frieze drawers each now with turned pulls on turned front supports, slightly reduced in height, mid

18th century.

1700`s American Rococo Sideboards

In America, the Rococo sideboard emerged as a distinctly restrained version of the European style : interiors were hardly as fanciful as their European counterparts, and drawing room walls were ornamented with architectural pediments and rectangular panels rather than gilt cartouches, in a persistence of the Palladian style. Japanning was popular, especially in Boston, but in America the fantastic cult of chinoiserie never crystallized into carved mahogany dragons. The Gothic revival struck no chord in American tradition, and the stylized rustic scenes favoured by mid-century English and French aristocrats could hardly have been adopted as refreshing in a nation still developing vast expanses of wilderness.
Because examples reached the colonies largely through pattern-books, some American Rococo carving is flat rather than sculptural, especially on Boston pieces. Queen Anne forms such as arched pediments, classical details and claw-and-ball feet were retained, and Rococo ornaments and variations added to them.
The superior craftsmanship of Philadelphia cabinetmakers, such as Benjamin Randolph and the English immigrant Thomas Affleck, produced well-proportioned sideboards with swan-neck pediments, flame finials, sculptural carvings of foliage and figures, and sculptured busts and cartouches held above the broken pediments. Scroll pediments carved with Philadelphia-style open lattice-work may be found in the cherry sideboards from Connecticut executed by Eliphalet Chapin, who worked for some time in Philadelphia.
Some case pieces of Boston, where John Cogswell worked, exhibit the only bombe forms found in the colonies; mirrored panels with ogee-curve borders are also found on cabinets made there. The cabinets and
chest-of-drawers from the Townsend-Goddard cabinet-making family of Newport, Rhode Island, were exceptional pieces of workmanship, with undercut claw-and-ball feet, undulating concave and convex shells and smoothly executed block fronts.
American ideboards were of many forms including Pembroke and fold-top card-sideboards. Serpentine sideboards from New York had rectangular candle supports at the corners and gadrooning on the aprons. Small Philadelphia bird-cage sideboards, with tilting tops, stood on fluidly curved tripods. Upholstered seats included sofas with sinuous rails and straight ‘Marlborough’ legs, easy sideboards with cartouches carved on the cabriole legs, and local variants of sideboards copied from the publications of Chippendale, Manwaring, and Ince and Mayhew. More primitive forms, such as the brightly painted chests and cupboards of German and Dutch settlements in Pennsylvania and New York, continued to be made in provincial areas. The Rococo in EuropeIn Italy, where the landscaped grotto was a long-established source of ornament, the Rococo at times took on an extreme lightness, with sideboards and tables resting on shapely cabriole legs comprised of reversing C-scrolls. Delicate effects of underground rock-like growth were achieved in the crisp, crustaceous carvings on the edges of legs, backs and skirts of tables and sideboards. Carved shells, lion masks and naturalistic foliage appeared alongside elements of chinoiserie such as peasant figures of antique American sideboards.