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.
Credit: John L. Severance Fund
c. 1840
Chiefly rosewood veneer with pine and poplar secondary woods
2000.72
Image and text: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2024
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The Cleveland Museum of Art
Permanent collection