The colonial furniture of New England : A study of the domestic furniture in use in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (1892)
Lyon, Irving Whitall, 1840-1896 · Boston, New York : Houghton, Mifflin · leaf 358
ons of the frame at right angles with each other.By folding these parallel with each other the topfalls on a hinge to a vertical line, just as is oftenseen in stands and stand tables, and the table thusfolded being unable to support itself is placed in acloset, or against the wall at the side of… … TABLES 201 square. Each leaf was kept up by a leg swingingoutward to a right angle with the frame. The feetwere generally plain, but after 1750, in the besttables, were sometimes of the ball and claw pattern,as in the present instance. A very quaint little table, quite common in Con-necticut, but…
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