Lot 187: Kentucky Sugar or Cellarette Sideboard

Unusual Central Kentucky Sugar Sideboard, cherry, mahogany banding, and poplar wood secondary. Rectangular gallery backsplash with inlaid banded border and inset plain cherry board over a top tier of two flanking hinged lift tops with half-round molding and rectangular fronts, having mahogany banding and inset cherry panels with brass escutcheons and locks. The left side opens to reveal a well that could have served for sugar storage or a cellarette. The cherry top with a cherry mitered outside perimeter of 2 1/4 in. width and mahogany veneer molded edge over a facade of three cockbeaded drawers with mahogany banding and inset figured cherry veneer panels, consisting of one long center dovetailed drawer flanked by a smaller right dovetailed drawer and a faux drawer of the same size on the left side. Case rests on four ring-turned and reeded Sheraton legs. 70 3/4 in. W x 21 1/4 in. D x 42 1/4 in. H. Circa 1830.

CONDITION: Older refinished surface. Left well with wooden strips around the perimeter indicating where a panel or board could have rested. Old patch to the top at the outer mitered edge above the right dovetailed drawer. A couple of old replacements of half-round molding for hinged lift tops as well as scattered old replacements to mahogany veneer banding of top edge, drawers, and lower edge of case. Some staining to the interior of the two dovetailed drawers.