The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour, & history (1911)
Foley, Edwin · New York, G.P. Putnam's sons · leaf 303
tables of the type having turned 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 than(WALTER wiTHALL, ESQ.) the… … FRAMED TABLE. 222 DECORATIVE 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-asteries had ceased toexist in England.These together with theCromwell Chair formthe chief…
Furniture · Decoration and ornament
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