Featured Age/style of antique sideboard?

Sideboard by eastcoastcurious posted Oct 17, 2021 at 4:32 PM

Drawer by eastcoastcurious posted Oct 17, 2021 at 4:32 PM

Bottom of sideboard by eastcoastcurious posted Oct 17, 2021 at 4:33 PM

Urn detail by eastcoastcurious posted Oct 17, 2021 at 4:33 PM

Size: 40” high, 48” wide

thanks!

 

Hepplewhite style (federal era), guesses 20th century

 

Thanks

 

It being 48" wide helps its value in my view, smaller is better, much better as dining room furniture is in a rough patch in the marketplace these days.
Its form is very similar to a "huntboard", a southern form of sideboard that is smaller like yours, if selling, that's the term I would use, HUNTBOARD!
Period huntboards go for big money, one of the few pieces of dining furniture that do.

 

Huntboard VS Sideboard, they are related but not the same.
Although the huntboard definition is total fiction ( riders on horseback eating/drinking from them on a hunt) there are differences.
Huntboards usually have 4 legs, sideboards have 6
Huntboards are taller, usually 40 inches or so VS sideboards at 36 inches
Huntboards are much smaller width-wise, usually 48 inches or so VS sideboards 60-72inches
Huntboards are mostly utilitarian, often painted yellow pine & poplar (most stripped now) with little decoration VS sideboards often built from imported mahogany with intricate contrasting wood inlays.

 

The biggest difference of all, of course, is the cost!
Period federal sideboards go for chump change these days where a period 1st half 19th-century huntboard will set you back thousands.

 

Thanks! I did get it in the Piedmont region, so it could be a southern hunt board.

 

Well, your huntboard could very well be antique, early 20th, just not period which is early 19th.

Huntboard similar to yours only period, early 19th century
https://brunkauctions.com/lot/fine-southern-federal-inlaid-walnut-huntboard-4063142

Walnut, string inlay, C 1820. sold for 10k this year


Huntboards like the one above are rare, they are usually utilitarian like this one in Birch
https://brunkauctions.com/lot/southern-federal-birch-huntboard-4092862

River Birch with yellow pine secondary, C 1830 sold for 5k this year


Same dealio here except Yellow Pine

 

Very helpful- thanks