The Background of the Antique Dining Table

All inclusive consuming on large oak refectory tables was the purchase of the day from the Centre Ages to the 17th century when a more genteel design of eating in allotted dining rooms fairly than substantial dining halls made opportunities for cabinet makers to generate smaller sized and far more refined pieces of furnishings.

The prolonged oak refectory antique dining tables of the earlier period had been produced from abundances of English oak set with each other with mortise and tenon joints and secured by dowels. Panelled armchairs, stools and benches had been the principal forms of seating and tables had been frame building with 4 legs joined by stretchers. Even so, it was when walnut veneers was utilised on these simple wooden carcasses in the reign of Queen Anne at the beginning of the 18th century that good quality English cabinetry truly started to make its mark.

Marquetry and parquetry had been each utilised to striking decorative impact to create quite grand and trendy items of dining furnishings. All about dining from then targeted on good quality and comfort. Characteristics of Queen Anne antique dining chairs had been that they had been predominantly created of walnut, had stuffed broad seats for comfort, substantial backs often decorated with vases and other decoration, and two plain plus two sturdy cabriole legs at the front which had been richly carved at the knee and had balls and claws at the feet.

The dining suite generally consisted of two carvers and at least six aspect chairs encompassing a significantly smaller and usually round but equally elaborate antique dining table.

When walnut commenced to run out throughout the early 18th century, mahogany was imported to substitute it and swiftly became the cabinet makers' alternative. The power and near grain of mahogany was also able to withstand the substantially cleaner and much less robust attributes of the neo-classical type, exactly where heart and shield formed backs released by George Hepplewhite produced a lighter nevertheless even now extremely powerful dining chair and once again smaller, slighter and quite great dining tables. In the hands of Thomas Sheraton, antique dining chairs and tables continued to grow to be lighter and a lot more rectilinear, with finely designed motifs and fluted and reeded legs.



Returns had been made to the previously Gothic and Renaissance models throughout the Victorian era. At a time when furnishings was being created fairly than hand produced, the Arts and Crafts motion lead by notables such as William Morris, continued to celebrate the ability of the joiner with significantly plainer, hand crafted oak furniture. Period and reproduction antique dining tables and antique dining chairs can be identified by trustworthy antique dealerships.

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Leonard McCray is a senior associate at Orchid Furniture and has spent many years in the Chinese Wood Cabinet Industry.

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