DepartmentHistoric House

Sideboard Table

Makerattributed to Shaw Furniture Company (founded 1780)

Date1917

Mediummahogany, marble

DimensionsOverall: 38 1/8 × 90 1/16 × 24 1/16 in. (96.8 × 228.8 × 61.1 cm)

Credit LineReynolda Estate

CopyrightPublic Domain

Object number1922.2.19

DescriptionThis long rectangular mahogany table has a black-and-white marble top and a deep decorative skirt with framed rectangular panels having low-relief neo-classical ornaments separated by ranges of stop-fluting. The sides of the skirt are entirely stop-fluted panels. The ornaments in the panels on the front include drapes, urns with drapes, and a feather cluster flanked by feathered scrolls. Small panels of patera define the corners and separate ornamental panels on the skirt. The eight square legs, with recessed panels of bellflowers carved in low relief, taper from the patera in the skirt to spade feet. The single drawer in the center of the long front side is disguised in the skirt. The interior of the drawer is divided to hold table utensils and perhaps linens.

The serving table, one of a pair, was made en suite with the dining table (1922.2.17) and demi-lune cabinets (1922.2.25 & 26) also in the dining room. Notations on the frame that holds leaves for the dining table suggest that Shaw Furniture Company may have been the original maker.
ProvenanceFrom 1964
Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, NC, acquired in 1964. [1]

Notes:
[1] In the early 1960s Charles H. Babcock (1899-1967) gave the house and its contents to the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation. The house was then incorporated as a museum and collection (Reynolda House, Inc.) on December 18, 1964 with the signing of the charter at its first board meeting. The museum first opened to the public in September 1965.

Status

On view