Diminutive Federal Satinwood-inlaid Mahogany Sideboard, attributed to Thomas Howard, Jr. (1774-1...

Diminutive Federal Satinwood-inlaid Mahogany Sideboard, attributed to Thomas Howard, Jr. (1774-1833), Pawtuxet and Providence, Rhode Island, c. 1800. Rectangular mahogany top with crossband-veneered front and return edges inlaid in the center with a string- and lozenge-patterned band, slightly overhanging the straight case, the front centering a string-inlaid mahogany paneled door opening onto deep interior fully divided from flanking drawer compartments by double-tenoned dividers, the proper right column of two drawers balanced by false two-drawer front on a single deep drawer at left, all drawers dovetailed with chestnut boards, the veneered stiles and apron rail inlaid with figured panels and underscored by a lozenge-patterned band along the serpentine edge of the apron and continuing over fronts of forelegs, which are inlaid only on the front with stringing along tapered sides down to satinwood-inlaid cuff, the bottom and back enclosed with horizontal white pine boards, 119cm wide, 50cm deep, 104cm high (47 1/4in wide, 20 1/2in deep, 41 1/2in high). Footnotes: Provenance The collection of Eric van Rooy. Nathan Liverant & Son, Colchester, Connecticut, 31 October 2010. Literature Attribution based on similar scale and serpentine form of Howard's case pieces such as a serving table in the collection of the Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, Rhode Island, illustrated in Eleanore Bradford Monahon, 'Thomas Howard Jr., Providence Cabinetmaker,' Antiques 87/6 (June 1965): 702-4, and The John Brown House Loan Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture (Providence: Rhode Island Historical Society, 1965), cat. no. 48. Also see two sideboards in Mabel Brady Garven Collection (acc. no. 1930.2171 and 1930.2172) published in Gerald W.R. Ward, American Case Furniture in the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University (1988), cat. no. 214-5. For a full account of former and current attributions, see Creator file 'Thomas Howard, Jr. (1774-1833)' and record no. RIF2903 in the Rhode Island Furniture Archive, Yale University Art Gallery. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing