{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"1560"},"copyright":{"label":"Copyright","value":"The American Folk Art Museum believes this work to be in the public domain."},"thesconceptsTechnique":{"label":"Technique","value":"http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster20167"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Eva and Morris Feld Folk Art Acquisition Fund"},"endDate":{"label":"End Date","value":"1830"},"sortNumber":{"label":"Sort Number","value":"1981    12    6"},"invno":{"label":"Accession number","value":"1981.12.6"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"Small table with grain and sponge  painted decoration; single centered drawer and serpentine front top and backboard; square tapering legs. Painted decoration includes 2 yellow verticle ovals on brown ground flanking drawer with horizontal oval around brass knob on yellow ground with black stippling. \"Inset.\" apron grain painted. Legs painted yellow to apron, black separation, stained, stained brown to feet."},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Paint on wood, with brass knob"},"geographyPlaceregion":{"label":"Place/Region","value":""},"media":{"label":"Media","value":{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/1247/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"1247"}},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Federal Sideboard Table"},"geographyCity":{"value":""},"textEntriesWebsitedisplaytext":{"value":["This country table was painted to simulate the fine woods and medallion insets found in high style furniture of the federal period (This table's strong resemblance to a high style piece from Portsmouth, NH c. 1810 (see xeerox) and it's relation to other painted and decorated pieces of the area suggests a possible NH origin) Urban styles took time to reach rural areas, but tended to last longer than in the cities, accounting for discrepancies in dates between high style furniture and country counterparts","Small table with grain and sponge  painted decoration; single centered drawer and serpentine front top and backboard; square tapering legs. Painted decoration includes 2 yellow verticle ovals on brown ground flanking drawer with horizontal oval around brass knob on yellow ground with black stippling. \"Inset.\" apron grain painted. Legs painted yellow to apron, black separation, stained, stained brown to feet.","Two primary reasons are most often cited to explain why so much furniture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is painted. The first is that paint protected the surface of the furniture and often disguised the fact that several different woods were employed in a single piece. The routine use of primary and secondary woods was partly a measure of expediency\u2014less expensive woods were used in areas that were not visible\u2014and partly a response to function, as more durable woods were chosen for areas of highest use. The second reason was a desire to imitate and interpret urban high-style fashions in the inexpensive medium of paint. What has been more recently recognized, however, is that such decorative painting was also expressive of regional taste.This small federal sideboard table features the functional aspects of such decorative painting but most strongly conveys a sense of aspiration in both painted decoration and construction. It displays the slender lines of federal-era furniture and combines a shaped backsplash with a cyma-curved overhanging tabletop in imitation of a drop-leaf table, though no parts move. The front panel under the \u201cdrop leaf\u201d is deeper than the side, for purely ornamental purposes, as it has received the greatest painted embellishment. A symmetrical arrangement of Adam-inspired ovals and rectangles gives the appearance of inlays of birch, satinwood, and other expensive veneers. The overwhelming impression in both paint and construction is therefore one of imitation, albeit through the use of imaginative rather than literally imitative grain painting.Stacy C. Hollander, \"Federal Sideboard Table,\" in American Anthem: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum (New York: Harry N. Abrams in association with American Folk Art Museum, 2001), 314."]},"bibliography":{"label":"Bibliography","value":"Treasures of Folk Art: Museum of American Folk Art"},"collections":{"label":"Collections","value":["Three Dimensional Works","eMuseum - Collection Highlights"]},"geography":{"label":"Geography","value":""},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"153199"},"geographyState":{"value":""},"thesconceptsMaterials":{"label":"Materials","value":"http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster20167"},"geographyCountry":{"value":"United States"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"people":{"label":"Artist / Maker","value":{"displayOrder":"1","personRole":"Artist","personID":"103","content":"Artist unidentified"}},"classifications":{"label":"Classification(s)","value":"Furniture/Furnishings"},"textEntries":{"label":"Text Entries","value":["This country table was painted to simulate the fine woods and medallion insets found in high style furniture of the federal period (This table's strong resemblance to a high style piece from Portsmouth, NH c. 1810 (see xeerox) and it's relation to other painted and decorated pieces of the area suggests a possible NH origin) Urban styles took time to reach rural areas, but tended to last longer than in the cities, accounting for discrepancies in dates between high style furniture and country counterparts","Small table with grain and sponge  painted decoration; single centered drawer and serpentine front top and backboard; square tapering legs. Painted decoration includes 2 yellow verticle ovals on brown ground flanking drawer with horizontal oval around brass knob on yellow ground with black stippling. \"Inset.\" apron grain painted. Legs painted yellow to apron, black separation, stained, stained brown to feet.","Two primary reasons are most often cited to explain why so much furniture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is painted. The first is that paint protected the surface of the furniture and often disguised the fact that several different woods were employed in a single piece. The routine use of primary and secondary woods was partly a measure of expediency\u2014less expensive woods were used in areas that were not visible\u2014and partly a response to function, as more durable woods were chosen for areas of highest use. The second reason was a desire to imitate and interpret urban high-style fashions in the inexpensive medium of paint. What has been more recently recognized, however, is that such decorative painting was also expressive of regional taste.This small federal sideboard table features the functional aspects of such decorative painting but most strongly conveys a sense of aspiration in both painted decoration and construction. It displays the slender lines of federal-era furniture and combines a shaped backsplash with a cyma-curved overhanging tabletop in imitation of a drop-leaf table, though no parts move. The front panel under the \u201cdrop leaf\u201d is deeper than the side, for purely ornamental purposes, as it has received the greatest painted embellishment. A symmetrical arrangement of Adam-inspired ovals and rectangles gives the appearance of inlays of birch, satinwood, and other expensive veneers. The overwhelming impression in both paint and construction is therefore one of imitation, albeit through the use of imaginative rather than literally imitative grain painting.Stacy C. Hollander, \"Federal Sideboard Table,\" in American Anthem: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum (New York: Harry N. Abrams in association with American Folk Art Museum, 2001), 314."]},"beginDate":{"label":"Begin Date","value":"1810"},"thesconcepts":{"label":"Terms","value":"http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster20167"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"1810\u20131830"},"exhibitions":{"label":"Exhibitions","value":[{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Thursday, July 11, 2002 - Sunday, January 5, 2003","exhibitionEndISODate":"2003-01-26","exhibitionID":"73","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2002-07-11","exhibitionBeginDate":"2002","exhibitionTitle":"American Anthem","exhibitionEndDate":"2003"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Wednesday, June 20, 2012 - Sunday, October 7, 2012","exhibitionEndISODate":"2012-10-07","exhibitionID":"151","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2012-06-20","exhibitionBeginDate":"2012","exhibitionTitle":"COMPASS: Folk Art in Four Directions","exhibitionEndDate":"2012"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Saturday, July 2, 2016 - Monday, September 19, 2016","exhibitionEndISODate":"2016-09-19","exhibitionID":"159","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2016-07-02","exhibitionBeginDate":"2016","exhibitionTitle":"AMERICAN MADE","exhibitionEndDate":"2016"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Saturday, April 4, 1992 - Sunday, September 6, 1992","exhibitionEndISODate":"1992-09-06","exhibitionID":"406","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"1992-04-04","exhibitionBeginDate":"1992","exhibitionTitle":"The Art of Embellishment","exhibitionEndDate":"1992"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Wednesday, February 24, 1982 - Sunday, September 19, 1982","exhibitionEndISODate":"1982-09-19","exhibitionID":"14","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"1982-02-24","exhibitionBeginDate":"1982","exhibitionTitle":"Folk Art Masterpieces","exhibitionEndDate":"1982"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Saturday, July 18, 2015 - Sunday, September 27, 2015","exhibitionEndISODate":"2015-09-27","exhibitionID":"169","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2015-07-18","exhibitionBeginDate":"2015","exhibitionTitle":"Folk Art and American Modernism","exhibitionEndDate":"2015"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"1993\u20132001","exhibitionEndISODate":"2001-10","exhibitionID":"64","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"1993-10-05","exhibitionBeginDate":"1993","exhibitionTitle":"America's Heritage","exhibitionEndDate":"2001"}]},"thesconceptsObjecttype":{"label":"Object Type","value":"http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster20167"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"34 7/8 × 26 × 20\""}}]}