. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . (( GATE-LEG TABLE SPLIT-BULU CATE-LEG TABLE. STUART. with its usually oval top in three pieces,whereof the two outer are flaps hingedon either side of the central fixed top,and supported when in use by swingingframing hinged to the fixed centralframing. THOUSAND-LEGGED TABLES Whilst falling numerically short of the so-called thousand legged table which James i. presented to the Earl of Middlesex, a particularlyingenious extension of the folding type of convertible table are thefolding tables, around which the governors sit at t
. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . (( GATE-LEG TABLE SPLIT-BULU CATE-LEG TABLE. STUART. with its usually oval top in three pieces,whereof the two outer are flaps hingedon either side of the central fixed top,and supported when in use by swingingframing hinged to the fixed centralframing. THOUSAND-LEGGED TABLES Whilst falling numerically short of the so-called thousand legged table which James i. presented to the Earl of Middlesex, a particularlyingenious extension of the folding type of convertible table are thefolding tables, around which the governors sit at their meetings in the BRITISH DECORATIVE FURNITURE—STUART, 1603-88 223 Heriot Hospital, Edinburgh, with hinged flaps upon each of the longersides enabhng them to be used for dining upon either or both one flap only is raised the width is not too great for guests to. GATE-LEG, OR FOLDIXG TABLE. be served from the opposite side if desired. The semicircular tableshown at each end for extending the main table may be used inde-pendently as a side table. A similar table is at Penshurst. TEA AND COFFEE TABLES The curiously synchronising additions of tea, coffee, and cocoa tothe beverages of England in this period led to a demand for smallerand lighter tables than heretofore. Evelyn claims to have seen the first cup of coffee drunk in England by a Greek at Oxford in 1637 ; whilst Cromwell was among the first to take the new China drink called by the Chinians Tchae, and GATE-LEO TABLE. ROYAL SCOTTISHFLAP TABLE. PARNHAM COLLECTION, jjy other UatiOUS Tay MUSEUM, EDINBURGH. CIRCA 1650. or Tee, and procurable at from six to ten guineas per pound, aprice which rendered it an expensive mistake to follow the exampleof the lady friend of the Duke of Monmouth, who boiled the
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