TABLES smallish tripod and quadripod, 1800-1850
At first antique tripod tables followed the same form as the larger single tables but, with the inventiveness of the Regency period, individual designs emerged. The Victorians produced small Victorian tripod tables with four small legs which strictly speaking do not belong in the same section but which, for the [...]
TABLES writing and library
A round or multi-sided library table, with a number of drawers, supported on a central base, normally a pillar, is referred to in the antique trade as a ‘rent’ or `drum top’ table. By tradition they were used to keep account of rents paid and due, for some tables have initials on [...]
TABLES reading, writing and artists
Architects’ tables were large and solid; others were of lighter construction and designed to fit in with furnishings in the fine reception rooms. The best are to be counted among the most elegant furniture. Even the inelegant are loved collectors love pieces that do things.
A much more simple reading table with [...]
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 [...]
TABLES dining, mahogany gateleg, shaped foot, 1735-1760
Just as the stretchers disappeared from chairs in the early part of the eighteenth century, so mahogany dining tables rid themselves of stretchers at much the same time. Perhaps it was the strength of mahogany or simply the desire to refine. Whatever the reason, some superb tables emerged. Good [...]
TABLES dining, refectory
Oak tables of the seventeenth century, with their rectangular boarded tops, are now generically referred to by their Victorian title of refectory tables. They evolved from trestle-supported boards, and developed into more sophisticated bulbous-legged tables and draw tables (tables with second leaves under, which pulled out to extend the table) in the sixteenth [...]