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Spanish Tables and Seating Furniture of the 
16th and 17th Centuries 
(Continued from page 39) 
The wrought iron braces from stretch- fancifully styled, when speaking of the 
ers to underframing and the shaping of correspondent Italian forms “Dantesca 
the under side of the stretchers are dis- and “Savonarola,” though why the 
tinctively Spanish. names of two great Florentines should 
The small round-topped folding table, be dragged into mobihary nomenclature 
with a single “gate” or extension leg, or why one chair should be given an 
shown in figure 12, may be regarded as adjectival and the other a substantive 
representing in itself two families of appellation no sufficient reason appears, 
early Spanish tables-—the “gate” table Both are built upon the folding or col- 
of well-known form, which usually had lapsible principle and are thus remims- 
an oval or an approximately oval top, cent of the period when chairs were ex- 
and the folding table, which could be ceedingly few in number and had to be 
folded up quite flat and leaned or stood moved from place to place. _ Altogether 
against the wall. As a folding table, fig- more desirable from the points of view 
ure 12, with its long gate and a sym- of both design and personal comfort is 
metrically placed pair of legs, exempli- the type of chair shown in figure 6, 
fies one of sundry ingenious methods of somewhat later, in point of stylistic de- 
stowing away small occasional tables. 
The fully developed gate table, so fa- 
velopment, than the two preceding ex¬ 
amples. . The highly ornate stretcher be- 
ine iuny ueveiupcu gate ^ —o™j - 
miliar to us through our own British tween the front legs, although found to 
and American members of the genus, some extent in contemporary Italian 
needs no especial comment except to chairs of closely related type, is strongly 
note that in the Spanish pieces of this characteristic of Spanish chair design, 
type the baluster-turned legs at the ends as will be seen by other examples lllus- 
of the “gates,” which swing outward to trated. The plain green velvet of the 
support tlie opened leaves, are frequent- seat and back affords an admirable foil 
ly cut vertically in half to fit against for the brass-headed nails, 
corresponding half legs which are sta¬ 
tionary and support the corners of the Characteristic Walnut Pieces 
body of the table. In other words, when _ . . 
the leaves are dropped the table stands Still more eloquent of its nationality 
upon four whole legs; when the leaves in design and craftsmanship is figure 15, 
are extended, the table stands upon eight a carved walnut chair of about the same 
half legs. 
llt legs date. Although, as in the case of this 
Small tables with three-sided tops for specimen, runner feet supporting pairs 
the corners of rooms, designed to fit in of legs were occasionally employed for 
the angle where two walls meet, really Spanish chairs, they were not nearly so 
constitute a part of the wall furniture, common in Spain as they were in Italy, 
as do also the long-legged stands or In every other respect figure 15 is typi- 
narrow tables meant for papelera sup- cally Spanish—the broad front stretcher 
ports. Among tables not specifically in- carved with motifs that only an Iberian 
tended for wall use there was abundant craftsman would have used, the arcaded 
diversity in heights, dimensions, contour back with carved spindles, the toprail 
and methods of structure to ensure 16th and crossrail ca.rved in a manner quite 
and 17 th Century Spanish rooms an as characteristically Spanish as the 
adequate provision in this respect for all stretcher and, finally, the backposts with 
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possible require- 
ments. A detailed 
discussion might 
easily be carried to 
great length but the 
well - defined types 
already noted will 
suffice to convey a 
comprehensive idea 
of the subject which 
personal observation 
will readily supple¬ 
ment. 
Chairs and 
Benches 
The earliest types 
of seating furniture 
shown in the ac¬ 
companying illustra¬ 
tions are the chairs 
appearing as figure 
8 and are sometimes 
Fig. 12. Small, round 11th 
Century folding table 
herringbone panels. 
One important 
phase of old Span¬ 
ish seating furniture 
is faithfully repre¬ 
sented by the two 
early 17 th Century 
walnut side chairs 
shown in figure 9. 
The very simple but 
also effective chip 
or gouge carving 
which both chairs 
exhibit on legs, 
backposts, toprails, 
crossrails, seat rails 
and elsewhere was a 
favorite decorative 
device extensively 
used in all sorts of 
places and in every 
manner of combina- 
( Cont. on page 78) 
Fig. 13. These types of 17 th Century stools are 
prevalent. The refinements are characteristically 
Spanish 
