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or secretaire 
with marqueterie 
and ormolu 
mounts. Louis 
XVI 
French Tables and Seating Furniture 
(Continued from page 31) 
suitable styles of dining rooms. 
Table Types 
The tables of the 17th Century may 
be divided into six principal types: 
(1) There were oblong or nearly 
square tables with four straight quad¬ 
rangular tapered legs set at the corners 
and connected by stretchers either of 
the saltire type or arranged in various 
other possible ways. 
(2) Tables with four straight legs 
and straight stretchers. 
(3) A third family with four straight 
legs and no stretchers. 
(4) Console tables of sundry pat¬ 
terns. 
(5) Writing tables of divers allied 
types. 
(6) A general classification of small 
tables or gueridons. 
(1) The tables of the first type ap¬ 
peared in considerable numbers about 
the beginning of the 17th Century and 
continued in vogue till after 1650. The 
straight saltire or X stretchers were 
often shaped at the edges and the type 
was closely allied to the sort of table 
that became common in England dur¬ 
ing the reign of William and Mary. 
A variation to this type, but similar 
in methods of structure, had scroll legs 
instead of straight, and the legs were 
canted so as to throw the scroll pro¬ 
jections diagonally outward. 
(2) The tables with four straight 
legs and straight stretchers were gener¬ 
ally oblong in shape and had either 
four stretchers connecting the legs in 
succession, or else three stretchers. Two 
of these were short and connected the 
pairs of end legs, and the third long, 
connecting the two short stretchers. 
Both legs and stretchers in this type 
were generally either spiral-turned or 
spool-turned. Both fashions of turning 
were of Portugese inspiration. The 
analogies to this type were plentiful in 
England at the end of the century and 
a very simple rendering of the same 
pattern was not uncommon in the 
American Colonies. 
(3) The third family having four 
legs set at the corners and no stretchers, 
might have either straight quadrangular 
tapered legs or canted cabriole legs. In 
both cases a shaped apron form of 
framing was generally made the vehicle 
of considerable ornamentation. These 
forms developed towards the middle 
of the century. 
Consoles 
(4) Console tables, which became 
highly popular in the second quarter 
of the century and continued there¬ 
after in great favor, displayed legs and 
underframing of much variety and were 
made both with and without stretchers. 
(Continued on page 100) 
An Empire dressing stand of mahogany with gilt brass 
mounts. Courtesy of the Rosenbach Galleries 
