10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DRAW-TOP TABLE»
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The Robert Lehman Collection: Decorative arts. XV
... cherub heads to disguise changes, possibly made in the second half of the
nineteenth century or in the early twentieth century. It is likely that the upper part
originated from a draw-top table to carry a thin plain top with flat palmette border.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Wolfram Koeppe, Clare Le Corbeiller, 2012
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The Chambers Dictionary
draw-table, draw-top table see drawing-table; draw -tube a tube sliding within
another, as in a form of telescope: draw -well a well from which water is drawn up
by a bucket and apparatus. - at daggers drawn openly hostile; draw Drawcansir ...
In such a room the family would dine at a draw-top table about two and a half feet
high and capable of being extended to over seven feet when the ends were
pulled out. Its bulbous or melon-ball legs would be joined at the base by a footrail
.
Lu Emily Hess Pearson, 1957
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Period Rooms in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Draw—top table: Rogers Fund, 1907 (07.217.11). Armchair: Rogers Fund, 1908 (
08.181.26). Stools: Rogers Fund, 1908 (08.181.11,12,16) and Rogers Fund,
1949 {49-56-14} Page 65. Chest: Rogers Fund, 1907 (07217.2). Cabinet: Rogers
...
Amelia Peck, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), 1996
5
The Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
I. DRAW-TOP TABLE, ENGLISH SILVER BOX, AMERICAN ENGRAVED BY
WILLIAM BURGIS. less he admits that he has got to dance. To the pressman
death says that no longer may he eat his breakfast so early in the morning and
that he ...
6
Danersk Decorative Furniture
This English Draw Top Table is intended for use back of a Davenport or as a
regular library table. The leaves can be pulled out without disturbing the articles
on the top. It should be made of solid walnut and inlaid with ebony or of old oak
and ...
The draw-top table, however, is a wonderfully ingenious invention which modern
furniture designers have never surpassed, and can be had in all sizes from small
tea tables to those large enough to seat a dozen people at dinner. Drop-leaf ...
Kay Peterson Parker, 1946
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An Illustrated History of English Domestic Furniture, ...
THE DRAW-TOP TABLE: 1550—1650 The method of overcoming the problems
of the long table, was by the use of a hinged-leaf, a draw-leaf, or a separate leaf.
There is some doubt as to the earliest of the first two types, as we find R.W. ...
Ivan George Sparkes, 1980
Leaves of Tudor- style draw- top table are fixed to raked runners, and center
section is located by two horns that fit mortises in cross-rail. The leaves rise as
they are pulled outward and the center rises along screws hold the fixed portion
of the ...
... of different woods may be employed. The craftsman should, however, avoid the
use of mahogany on this project. FINCH PROVINCIAL DREISER G.ttM. French
Provincial Dresser In order to. 121 PROVINCIAL FURNITURE Draw-Top Table.
John Gerald Shea, Paul Nolt Wenger, 1938
