American Empire straight-front sideboard with crotch-grain veneered oblong gallery. The upper front has a shallow overhang with a wide center drawer and two replacement glass pulls. Front also has two end drawers with original spiral cut glass pulls. Below the frieze is a double-door cupboard flanked by single door cupboards faced with crotch-grain veneer with slightly sunk oblong panels, each fitted with brass-keyhole surrounds. The freeze surmounts four turned and reeded pilasters with bull-nose trim along the apron. The piece stands on eight turned legs terminating on bun feet.
Provenance
James Buchanan
To Harriet Lane Johnston
Purchased by Julius Friedrick Sachse at a Lancaster Auction
Bequeathed to Samuel B. Sadtler, Great Grandson to Mr. Sachse
Dark Brown Leather, Tan Suede, Stitched Seat. Red, Blue, Green, and Cream Woven Girth. Quilted Padding Underneath. Tulip Motif Painted on Saddle in Red, Green and Brown. Maker's Mark - 'H. Pinkerton, Maker, Lancaster'
Center Square, Lancaster City, in the 1850s. Oliver Dickey, Ed. Hubley, John Eshleman, Charles N. Sproul. Photo from a remarkable outdoor Daguerrotype. E. S. Hubley's Hotel in background on southeast corner of the square.
Photograph- Shenk family portrait: Christian Shenk; Mary Warfell Shenk; and children from left to right: Elizabeth Shenk Fahnestock; Anna Shenk Kendig; Abraham Shenk; Rudolph Shenk. The Shenks were proprietors of the Sorral Horse Hotel, West King Street, Lancaster. Photograph of a cased image.
Photograph- Shenk family portrait: Christian Shenk; Mary Warfell Shenk; and children from left to right: Elizabeth Shenk Fahnestock; Anna Shenk Kendig; Abraham Shenk; Rudolph Shenk. The Shenks were proprietors of the Sorral Horse Hotel, West King Street, Lancaster. Photograph of a cased image.
Description
Shenk family portrait: Christian Shenk; Mary Warfell Shenk; and children from left to right: Elizabeth Shenk Fahnestock; Anna Shenk Kendig; Abraham Shenk; Rudolph Shenk. The Shenks were proprietors of the Sorral Horse Hotel, West King Street, Lancaster. Photograph of a cased image.
Photograph- Lancaster Mercantile College, North Duke Street. T. H. Pollock, Principal. Now site of Lancaster County Courthouse Annex. Image from 1857 map of the city of Lancaster.
Photograph- Lancaster Mercantile College, North Duke Street. T. H. Pollock, Principal. Now site of Lancaster County Courthouse Annex. Image from 1857 map of the city of Lancaster.
Description
Lancaster Mercantile College, North Duke Street. T. H. Pollock, Principal. Now site of Lancaster County Courthouse Annex. Image from 1857 map of the city of Lancaster.
Photograph of cased image taken at the Addis Gallery in Lancaster, c. 1852, of the Christian Shenk family: Christian, wife Mary Warfel Shenk and children, left to right, Elizabeth Shenk Fahnestock, Anna Shenk Kendig, Abraham Shenk and Rudolph Shenk. The Shenks were proprietors of the Sorrel Horse Hotel on West King Street in Lancaster.
