The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history (1910)
Foley, Edwin · London : T.C. and E.C. Jack · leaf 306
type having tui-ned balusters or flat-shaped uprights on the centralcross bar. That more artistic forerunnerof the modern extending table,the drawinge or draw table,introduced from the Continentin Elizabethan days, was stillthree or four inches higher thanFRAMED TABLE. (WALTER wiTHALL, ESQ.) the… … 222 DECORATIA E FURNITURE The principle of the chair-table was used in the settle-tables knownnowadays as monks benches, although not madeuntil more than half acentury after the mon-iisteries had ceased toexist in England.These together with the■Cromwell Chair formthe chief contributionsof Puritan…
Furniture · Decoration and ornament
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