Sideboard Table, Slab Top

DateCa. 1770

OriginAmerica, Massachusetts or Rhode Island

MediumMahogany, white pine, ash, maple or birch, and marble

DimensionsOH: 33 1/8" OW: 54 1/2"; OD: 25 1/2"

Credit LineBequest of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Hennage

Object number1990-303

DescriptionAppearance: Slab-top sideboard table. Inset marble top within a mahogany frame on three sides with molded edge; wide skirt with bead at bottom edge; fluted straight legs, square in cross section with chamfered inner corner; pierced knee brackets.

Construction: rails tenoned into legs and veneered on front and sides with applied bead nailed along edge of skirt; top molding nailed to top edges of skirt creates frame on top for marble; pierced brackets nailed to sides of legs and underside of skirt; medial rail in dovetail in top of front and rear rails; four vertical triangular (some rectangular possibly replaced) glue blocks in corners of each leg and rail joint; end battens with angled ends to correspond to corner glue blocks nailed across sides at top.
ProvenanceIsrael Sack, Inc.
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Gershenson, Detroit, MI.
Israel Sack, Inc. until 1975