TABLES - occasional gateleg - Willian and Mary fruitwood small side tables - oak occasional table - French country rococo table - Regency carved wood - jacobian gate leg - walnut baroque gateleg table with drawers
First an example of a fruitwood gateleg table. It has a main turned support at each end, showing baluster and [...]
TABLESÂ dining, Georgian extending
The limitations of the gateleg table are obvious; its size cannot be above a certain dimension and the legs get in the way of the diner. The George III D-end table resolved the first problem, although not always the second.
The concept of the D-end table is ingenious enough. The two D-ends, each [...]
TABLESÂ early card and side
It is perhaps ironic that the design of early games tables can be traced back to sacred and ecclesiastical pieces. Furniture from one period borrows from another in ways which can be surprising. Card playing and gaming once occupied a place which has since been replaced by other forms of gambling [...]
Late XVIII Century Tables
18th Century tables, although not described as such in Chippendale’s Director, were a new type of table. During the first half of the 18th century, people tended to sit at small tables to eat, arranged in groups in a dedicated eating room.
Around the 1750s, people began to eat at longer tables. Quite [...]