. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . OOCCHETTE (DATE 1583). CHABRlfeRES-ARLfeS COLLECTION. 150 DECORATIVE FURNITURE. TABLES About 1560 tlie tcable a rallonge, from which our British draw-table was evolved, was introduced into France; the French table,however, usually had a colonnade placed upon the central tread bar or plinth connecting theend supports. Tables which previously inFrance, as in other lands, hadbeen mainly of boards and trestles—readily dismantled and stowedaway after use—in the sixteenthcentury become complete andframed pieces of decorative woodwork
. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . OOCCHETTE (DATE 1583). CHABRlfeRES-ARLfeS COLLECTION. 150 DECORATIVE FURNITURE. TABLES About 1560 tlie tcable a rallonge, from which our British draw-table was evolved, was introduced into France; the French table,however, usually had a colonnade placed upon the central tread bar or plinth connecting theend supports. Tables which previously inFrance, as in other lands, hadbeen mainly of boards and trestles—readily dismantled and stowedaway after use—in the sixteenthcentury become complete andframed pieces of decorative woodwork. The supporting ends of suchtables as that in Colour Plate No. XVI. with the Li%e annoire, are soenriched that one scarcely realises immediately their direct descentfrom the threstule. WALNUT CESTEE T.\BLE. LATE SIXTEENTH WOODS Though, upon French soil, forests yet flourished and coal was un-known, one finds much the same fear lest the wooden wealth shouldgive out, in France as in England, during the sixteenth example, the potter, Bernard Palissy, says: If ever I be lord ofsuch land that is devoid of wood, I
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