Philadelphia-made marble top mahogany sideboard. The slightly overhanging marble top is above a protruding frieze, fitted with a handleless drawer in book-matched veneer of boldly figured crotch mahogany beneath a molded top edge continued along the sides of the case. Raised on freestanding pilasters in the form of Ionic columns, above a conforming veneered platform on massive paw-feet at the front, round legs behind. The columns stand before the recessed back which is hinged with a pair of mirrored doors. The doors were possibly added at a later date, converting what was a probably a pier table to a sideboard. (Murphy D. Smith, "Due Reverence," 1992).