Archive for the ‘Gate-leg Tables’ Category

Victorian, Art Deco and Edwardian Gateleg Tables

Friday, November 20th, 2009

TABLESĀ  gateleg
The gateleg table was a great favourite of the 17th and 18th centuries. It did not die out in the 19th century but continued in other forms, like the Sutherland (q.v.) table.
During the last quarter of the 19th century, however, it was back to the Good Old Days for gatelegs, as with so many [...]

Antique Gate-leg Tables

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Gate-leg table
Coinciding more or less with the Commonwealth period, an increasing number of households began to furnish their houses with relatively sophisticated furniture by comparison with the rather basic pieces of earlier periods. One of the most typical was the gate-leg table, made for the houses of yeomen farmers, manor houses and wealthier households whose [...]