Old English furniture and its surroundings, from the restoration to the regency (1920)
Percival, MacIver · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 119
nt 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 handle). Then there are the small kniveswhich were handed round when cheese was served,… … changed during the greater part of the repast. The numberof plates in use, which were often of silver, too, was limited,and they were washed, if required, in the dining-room itself,thus remaining under the eye of the butler who was in chargeof the silver. The silver plates are simple in pattern,…
Furniture · Interior decoration
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