Old English furniture and its surroundings, from the restoration to the regency (1920)
Percival, MacIver · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 64
the shapeof arabesques, so probably when they 13- Silver Spoons,were put on the table they were laid thereverse way to what is now usual. These spoons aregenerally of a large size. Tea-spoon sizes being adecided rarity till quite the centurys end. Silver forks wereanother innovation of about this… … OLD ENGLISH FURNITURE knife. Earlier forks appear to have been provided for eatingpears and green ginger only. The seventeenth century forkhad three, and sometimes four, prongs and a handle similarto the contemporary spoons. The practice of engraving in-itials or a crest on the handle was now first…
Furniture · Interior decoration
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