Sideboard Table

Sideboard Table

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

In form, this boldly architectural sideboard is basically a massive, columnar pier table, a departure from the typical New York sideboard of the period, which has either two enclosed pedestal ends with a center opening for a cellaret or a fully enclosed lower section comprised of four cupboard doors (see 1972.235.1).


The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.