Details

Title

Sideboard

Artist/Maker

Unidentified American Maker, probably Philadelphia

Date

ca. 1875–1885

Medium

Walnut, poplar, painted earthenware tiles, and brass mounts

Dimensions

76 1/2 x 54 1/2 x 27 1/8 inches

Credit

Virginia Carroll Crawford Collection

Accession #

1994.158

On View

On View - Stent Family Wing, Level 3, Gallery 303

With its visible joints and modest ornamentation, this severe, almost medieval looking sideboard was made in accordance with the design theory of Charles Locke Eastlake, a British architect and critic who advocated “honesty” in the construction of furniture. Along with William Morris—an English artist and designer who exhibited works at the Centennial Exhibition—Eastlake called for a return to hand craftsmanship to counter the dominance of machine production in the 1800s.

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