Sideboard
- Date
- c.1855–60
- made in
- New York, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Furniture
- Collection
- Decorative Arts and Design
- Current Location
- On View, Gallery 137
- Dimensions
- 94 3/8 x 72 x 25 in. (239.7 x 182.9 x 63.5 cm)
- Credit Line
- Eliza McMillan Purchase Fund; and Museum Purchase, gift of the Mercantile Library, bequest of Miss Georgia Elliot, funds given by the Decorative Arts Society, gift of William T. Deacon, bequest of Katherine Jane Hinchey Cochran in honor of Paul Hinchey, and gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley M. Rosenblum and Miss Elizabeth Green, by exchange
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 23:2007a-j
NOTES
This extravagant sideboard features carved ornament that represents wine and agriculture, subjects appropriate to furniture intended for the dining room. Grape vines encircle a pudgy baby or putto at the top. Pendant grapes and the goat in the central panel may be emblems of Bacchus, the Roman god of wine. More grapes and a cask ornament one of the doors below. The inclusion of straw hats, sheaves of wheat, a hay fork, and a gourd bottle on the other door suggests agriculture, the harvest, or simply country life—all motifs for the enjoyment of the city dwellers who were Alexander Roux’s principal customers.
Provenance
1946 -
Dr. Harry and Mrs. Isabel Kelley, USA
1946 - 1970
Roger F. and Rose W. Keleher, purchased from Dr. and Mrs. Kelley [1]
1970 - 2007
Theodore and Joan Bernard, Wilbraham, Mass., USA, purchased from Roger F. and Rose W. Keleher [2]
2007/08/30 -
James D. Julia Inc., consigned by Joan Bernard [3]
2007 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased at auction, "Samoset 2007 Antiques and Fine Art," James D. Julia, Inc., Samoset, Maine, August 30, 2007, lot no. 1550 [4]
Notes:
[1] Receipt dated December 18, 1946 [SLAM document files].
[2] Receipt dated July 1970 [SLAM document files].
[3] Correspondence from William Gage, James D. Julia, Inc., to Sidney Goldstein, Curator of Ancient and Islamic Art, dated October 3, 2007.
[4] Invoice dated August 30, 2007 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, August 23, 2007.
Dr. Harry and Mrs. Isabel Kelley, USA
1946 - 1970
Roger F. and Rose W. Keleher, purchased from Dr. and Mrs. Kelley [1]
1970 - 2007
Theodore and Joan Bernard, Wilbraham, Mass., USA, purchased from Roger F. and Rose W. Keleher [2]
2007/08/30 -
James D. Julia Inc., consigned by Joan Bernard [3]
2007 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased at auction, "Samoset 2007 Antiques and Fine Art," James D. Julia, Inc., Samoset, Maine, August 30, 2007, lot no. 1550 [4]
Notes:
[1] Receipt dated December 18, 1946 [SLAM document files].
[2] Receipt dated July 1970 [SLAM document files].
[3] Correspondence from William Gage, James D. Julia, Inc., to Sidney Goldstein, Curator of Ancient and Islamic Art, dated October 3, 2007.
[4] Invoice dated August 30, 2007 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, August 23, 2007.
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