Sideboard - Sideboard

Tripartite cabinet with wide central section and flanked by two smaller side sections with a row of drawers of corresponding dimensions above storage sections enclosed by doors below (two doors at center, one at left and right). Each section with locks, drawers without. Cabinet made of cherry stiles at corners, bottom case rail and door frames. Pine stiles used to support interior front Interior of door panels are yellow pine with grain laid horizontally veneered with flame-grain mahogany framed by cherry veneered with mitred mahogany panels (faced at top of door), and small quarter-round moldings of unidentified hardwood. Pine boards line case bottom, divide storage compartments, used for interior shelf supports and shelf in central section. Shelves of cherry with elongated, concave profiles in left and right compartments. Wood for fields of door panels same as that used on back boards (laid with grain running horizontally), and compartment dividers. Veneers to front secured with glue and small sprigs. Refer to photographs for additional construction details. Drawers dovetailed; fronts are pine with mahogany veneer front framed by mitred veneers; tulip poplar sides, back and bottom. Bottom let in groove in sides, rests on top of bottom of front, nailed twice through to back board. Overhanging top supported by four reeded turned columns with flat ring turnings above and below. Ionic capitals with leaf ornament at center and incised swags with leaf-decorated plinth above. Mahogany backboard with projecting center and flat molding below. Overall, construction is thick, drawers flush to interior of case front.