Old English furniture and its surroundings, from the restoration to the regency (1920)
Percival, MacIver · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 118
the endsslightly scrolled, thebowls of all spoonswere of the pointedtype, the fig shapehaving been entirely abandoned. Small spoons of the teasize were now made for the first time in any quantity. Therat-tail pattern was a very favourite one at the beginning of the eighteenth century, it isso… … 24. Globular Queen Anne Tea-pot, 1712. provided. The names still in use for the different sizes arean interesting testimony to their original purposes. Thus wehave the table knife, fork, and spoon, which were thelarge-sized utensils laid to each cover (the original table forkhad a silver or ivory…
Furniture · Interior decoration
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