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Title: Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Meyer, Franz Sales, 1849-
Subjects: Decoration and ornament Art objects
Publisher: New York, B. Hessling
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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ger Banqueting-tables, around three sides of which the Sofas were ranged as shown ; ;. The Late Roman period was one of lavish luxury; we are told, for example, of tables withlegs of silver and ivory, and with Table-tops of rare woods, &c. La-credible prices, up to £ 14,000, were paid for a single choice top. The Tables of the Middle Ages were generally rectangular orsemicircular, rested on posts or trestles, were plain, and rathercumbrous. It is said of Charlemagne, however, that he possessedthree of silver, and one golden (?) table. Beautiful and richly-designedTables of very different kinds have been preserved from the time ofthe Renascence. Of particularly frequent occurrence, are richly-carvedside-trusses (fig. 7), simpler forms of which were already in use inthe Gothic period (fig. 5). In the Barocco and Rococo periods, thelegs are curved, and the tops are of bold, arbitrary design (fig. 8).The Console-table is an invention of this period. It was also at this 44. FURNITURE.
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Plate 251. The Table. The Table. — The Writing-Table. 443 time that the Dumb-waiter, came into general use. As far as art isconcerned, our modern Tables are mostly copies of old models.Plate 251 gives a small selection from the copious material. Plate 251. The Table. 1. Antique, bronze, Museum, Naples, (Eaguenet). 2. Antique, bronze, (Menard et Sauvageot). 3. Roman, (Kantharos of Ptolemy). 4. Mediaeval, Chronicle of Louis XI, (Viollet-le-Duc). 5. Late Gothic, Municipal Collection of Antiquities, Freiburg, (Schau-insland). 6. Renascence, with turned legs, French, Castle of Bussy - Rabutin,(Cote dor). 7. Renascence, with carved side-trusses, French, (Ducerceau). 8. French, 18 th century, Garde-meuble, Paris, (Raguenet). 9. Modern, Renascence style. 10. Modern. 11. Modern, French, Paris, (Raguenet). The Writing-Table. (Plate 252.) The peculiar construction of the Writing-table removes it fromthe category of ordinary Tables. In a certain sense it forms thetransition to the Cabinets, in

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