The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history (1910)
Foley, Edwin · London : T.C. and E.C. Jack · leaf 121
lour Plate XXXIV. Indeed, theclever arrangement whereby a level-surfaced top is obtained of double thenormal length of the table, appears tothe writer far preferable to the screw-extension tables which are now regardedas almost sacrosanct by British middle-class furnishers. Examples of the English… … COLONIAL FURNITURE IN AMERICA 79 tlie cabriole-legged eighteenth-century type, are allto be found. A badly made piece of furniture,but interesting on account of its associations, isthe table herewith shown, at which Moll Pitcher,the famous fortune-teller of Lynn, sat when re-ceiving credulous…
Furniture · Decoration and ornament
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