Sideboard and Cellarette (c. 1840): Art, History and Details

Sideboard and Cellarette (c. 1840) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Duncan Phyfe and Son (American, 1768–1854).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This sideboard and cellarette would have graced a 19th-century room. Notice the keyholes on the drawers of both pieces. Expensive silver utensils were stored in the sideboard and wine was kept under lock and key in the cellarette.

Object facts

• Title: Sideboard and Cellarette
• Date: c. 1840
• Creator attribution: Duncan Phyfe and Son (American, 1768–1854)
• Culture: America, New York
• Type: Furniture and woodwork
• Technique: chiefly rosewood veneer with pine and poplar secondary woods
• Collection: Furniture
• Department: Decorative Art and Design
• Accession number: 2000.72

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions Press Release,” October 6, 2000, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.

View the collection record

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