The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods (1914)
Eberlein, Harold Donaldson, McClure, Abbot, 1879- · Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott Company · leaf 405
mpire period were usuallymade with square ends and were of the extension type,having drop leaves and other leaves which could be in-serted on pedestal tables (Key XVII, 3, and Fig. 5).It was not an uncommon thing on the occasion of largefamily dinners when an unusually long table was re-quired to… … Fig. 5. Pedestal Table.By Courtesy of Wilson Mitchell, Esq., Philadelphia. highly ornate pedestals (Figs. 5 and 6; Plate XXXIX,p. 286) rising from a plinth that in turn was supportedon winged claw feet (Plate XXXIX, p. 286). Many ofthese pedestal tables were rectangular and some haddouble tops…
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