This sideboard is part of a walnut dining room set in the Renaissance Revival style, consisting of a dining table, fourteen chairs, two sideboards, and a vitrine. It has the same iconographic features as the sideboard with the inventory number
400-0098 and the vitrine with the inventory number
400-0118.
The sideboard features carved decorations on its pediment, edges, and cabinet doors. The oval shape in the centre of the pediment is surrounded by foliated scrolls and floral motifs. The top shelf is supported by carved putti figures on both sides. The term putti, denotes a mythological figure in a work of art depicted as a chubby male child, usually naked and sometimes winged. The border of the thin shelf on which the putti stand is adorned with carved leaves, lined up side by side.
Compared to the sideboard with the inventory number
400-0098, this sideboard is larger and its lower part is designed to have three doors. The doors on the right and left are decorated more simply, whereas the middle compartment features more intricate carvings. The decorative circle in the centre of this door is surrounded by foliated scrolls, grape clusters, and vines. Between the legs is a humanoid face, reminiscent of the grotesque figures of the Renaissance.
On either side of the sideboard is a moveable handle, adorned with vegetal decorations and scrolling acanthus leaves beneath. The two legs supporting the central section are decorated with foliated scrolls, while the rest are in the shape of lion’s paws, in keeping with the other pieces of the dining room set.
