Morse, Frances Clary · New York, the MacMillan Co. · leaf 248
lllus. 186.—•■ Hundred-legged Table, 1675-1700. tables of the same date with wooden tops. Thereis one drop handle left upon the drawer, the framearound which has the early single moulding. Illustration 185 shows a curious little table, severalof which have been found in Connecticut, and whichwere… … Tables 223 wing-shaped braces, from which comes the modernname for this table, of butterfly table. The table in Illustration 186 is an unusually fineexample of what is now called a hundred-legged or forty-legged table, evidently from the bewil-dering number of legs beneath it, which are wofuUyin…
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