The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour, & history (1911)
Foley, Edwin · New York, G.P. Putnam's sons · leaf 211
ver, 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 ase—in the sixteenthcentury become complete andframed pieces of… … WALNUT CENTRE TABLE. LATE SIXTEENTH CENTOEY.FRENCH. 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 century.For example, the potter, Bernard Palissy, says:…
Furniture · Decoration and ornament
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