Sideboard table

Status

On view

Date1750-1770

Geography Made - England

Medium/TechniqueMahogany (top, legs, facings, shims), unidentified softwood (front rail, rear rail, side rails, shims, medial rails)

DimensionsOverall: 37 1/2 in. x 66 in. x 27 3/8 in. (95.25 cm x 167.64 cm x 69.53 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, 1967

Object numberM-2496

DescriptionLarge rectangular, table with fluted rails on four, straight legs, serpentine- and bead-molded on their exterior faces and chamfered on their interior edge; overhanging, veneered, two-board top with rounded front corners and an unfinished back edge is screwed to the front rail and glued to wooden shims nailed to sliding L-brackets screwed to the two solid medial rails; rectangular frame with solid front and rear rails, and side rails with three horizontal laminations, the front and side rails with fluted mahogany facings, cove and astragal molded along their top and bottom; C-scroll brackets are nailed to the corners of the front and side rails and the legs.
Published ReferencesMount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union, Mount Vernon: An Illustrated Handbook (Mount Vernon, Va.: Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union, 1968), 61.

Helen Maggs Fede, Washington Furniture at Mount Vernon (Mount Vernon, Va.: Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union, 1966), 62-64.

Thomas Chippendale, The Gentleman & Cabinet-Maker's Director, 3rd ed. (London: Printed for the Author, 1762; New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1966), plate no. LVI.

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