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Ball And Claw Sideboard

FULLY RESTORED ANTiQUE FLAMED HARDWOOD CLAW & BALL FOOT DEMI LUNE SIDEBOARD
Located in GB
fully restored antique circa 1900 Flamed Mahogany, Claw & Ball foot demi lune sideboard Please note
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Antique Early 1900s English Edwardian Sideboards

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Hardwood

IMPORTANT ANTIQUE MUSEUM QUALITY CLAW & BALL LEATHER PAiNTED HALF MOOD SIDEBOARD
Located in GB
, museum quality, hand painted leather clad trunk sideboard depicting rural scenes with horses Please note
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Antique 19th Century European High Victorian Sideboards

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Leather, Oak

Maitland Smith Egyptian Revival Faux Marble Ball & Claw Sofa Hall Console Table
By Maitland Smith
Located in Dayton, OH
a female figure and ball and claw feet. Base finished in a greenish silver patina. Dimensions: 20
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Late 20th Century Egyptian Revival Console Tables

Materials

Hardwood, Paint

Antique Victorian Burlwood Sideboard
Located in Chicago, IL
addition of claw and ball feet adds a touch of vintage charm and sophistication to its design. Each drawer
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Early 20th Century American Victorian Sideboards

Materials

Brass

Antique Victorian Burlwood Sideboard
Antique Victorian Burlwood Sideboard
H 32 in W 66 in D 20.5 in
Mahogany Chippendale Sideboard, circa 1920
Located in Evergreen, CO
leaves at the knees. The legs terminate in classic ball and claw feet. An optional piece of glass to
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Early 20th Century Belgian Chippendale Sideboards

Materials

Mahogany, Oak

Mahogany Chippendale Sideboard, circa 1920
Mahogany Chippendale Sideboard, circa 1920
H 45.75 in W 67.5 in D 22.5 in
19th Century English Chippendale Low Sideboard
By Thomas Chippendale
Located in Louisville, KY
cabriole with heavy ball and claw feet. The drawers are joined together with hand cut dovetails. The
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Antique 19th Century English Chippendale Sideboards

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Brass

1950s Vintage Custom Blue Painted Sideboard
Located in Waxahachie, TX
the paint. No veneers. Ball and claw feet. Bright gold hardware. It's probably 60-80 years old
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Vintage 1950s Unknown Mid-Century Modern Sideboards

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Wood, Paint

Swedish mid 20th century rococo inspired birch sideboard
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
ball and claw feet with further carving to the frieze. Rich golden birch colour, minor surface marks
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Mid-20th Century Swedish Rococo Sideboards

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Irish Cuban Mahogany Acanthus Carved Sideboard. Circa 1840
Located in Hollywood, SC
claw & ball feet. Mid 19th Century.
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Antique 1840s Irish Empire Sideboards

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Brass

Burled Hunt Board
Located in Annville, PA
quality details include shell carved knees, cabriole legs and ball and claw feet and dovetailed drawers
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2010s Sideboards

Materials

Mahogany

Burled Hunt Board
Burled Hunt Board
H 37 in W 59 in D 18.5 in
Mahogany Hunt Board
Located in Annville, PA
the knees, cabriole legs and ball and claw, Chippendale inspired feet. The five drawers are deep and
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2010s Sideboards

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Mahogany

Mahogany Hunt Board
Mahogany Hunt Board
H 37 in W 59 in D 18.5 in
Mahogany Bench on Carved Legs
Located in Woodbury, CT
claw and ball feet, it looks good from any angle.
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Antique 19th Century British George II Stools

Materials

Upholstery, Mahogany

Mahogany Bench on Carved Legs
Mahogany Bench on Carved Legs
H 19 in W 23 in D 19 in

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Ball And Claw Sideboard For Sale on 1stDibs

With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the ball and claw sideboard you’re looking for. Frequently made of wood, mahogany and birch, every ball and claw sideboard was constructed with great care. There are 8 variations of the antique or vintage ball and claw sideboard you’re looking for, while we also have 2 modern editions of this piece to choose from as well. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect ball and claw sideboard — we have versions that date back to the 19th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 21st Century are available. When you’re browsing for the right ball and claw sideboard, those designed in Georgian, Empire and mid-century modern styles are of considerable interest.

How Much is a Ball And Claw Sideboard?

A ball and claw sideboard can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price 1stDibs is $2,418, while the lowest priced sells for $880 and the highest can go for as much as $35,000.

Finding the Right sideboards for You

Once simply boards made of wood that were used to support ceremonial dining, sideboards have taken on much greater importance since their modest first appearance. In Italy, the sideboard was basically a credenza, a solid furnishing with cabinet doors. It was initially intended as an integral piece of any dining room where the wealthy gathered for meals in the southern European country.

Later, in England and France, sideboards retained their utilitarian purpose — a place to keep hot water for rinsing silverware and from which to serve cold drinking water — but would evolve into double-bodied structures that allowed for the display of serveware and utensils on open shelves. We would likely call these buffets, as they’re taller than a sideboard. (Trust us — there is an order to all of this!)

The sideboard is often deemed a buffet in the United States, from the French buffet à deux corps, which referred to a storage and display case. However, a buffet technically possesses a tiered or shelved superstructure for displaying attractive kitchenware and certainly makes more sense in the context of buffet dining — abundant meals served for crowds of people.

An antique or vintage sideboard today is a sophisticated and stylish component in sumptuous dining rooms of every shape, size and decor scheme, as well as a statement of its own, showcased in art galleries and museums. Furniture maker and artist Paul Evans, whose work has been the subject of various celebrated museum exhibitions, created ornamented, welded and patinated sideboards for Directional Furniture, collections such as the Cityscape series that speak to his place in revolutionary brutalist furniture design as much as they echo the origins of these sturdy, functional structures centuries ago.

If mid-century modern sideboards are more to your liking than an 18th-century mahogany sideboard with decorative inlays by Hepplewhite, the particularly elegant pieces crafted by designers Hans Wegner, Edward Wormley or Florence Knoll are often sought by today’s collectors.

Whether you have a specific era or style in mind or you’re open to browsing a vast collection to find the right fit, 1stDibs has a variety of antique, new and vintage sideboards to choose from.

Questions About Ball And Claw Sideboard
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    Ball and claw furniture has been popular through a range of eras. It has been a notable feature of the Queen Anne era and the Rococco period, covering the early to late 1700s. It was also highly popular during the Edwardian period in the early 1900s. Find a collection of ball and claw furniture from various eras on 1stDibs.

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