On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 15:00:15 -0700, Sonny wrote:

On Saturday, October 20, 2012 1:39:45 PM UTC-5, Swingman wrote:
On 10/20/2012 1:16 PM, basilisk wrote: Making Authentic Shaker
Furniture Subtitle: With measured drawings of museum classics.
Author John G. Shea published originally in 1971, while there were
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The book Bill mentioned, and I ordered, "Furniture Treasures", and the
other book I had mentioned, "The Early Furniture of French Canada", came
in today. I glanced through them and the "French" book has a few pics
of consoles, which appear to be leaning furniture, circa late 18th c.
and early 19th c. It states they were common in churches, on one or
each side of the altar. Also, they were in high end homes, of the
times. The pics and discussion is in the section with trestle tables.
There is similar discussion, regarding trestles tables only, in the
Furniture Treasury book. The French book comments about modifications
of the trestle table.

The Furniture Treasures book (Volume 3, pg 123) comments on trestle
tables, in that, ...referring to plates (pics) 800- 802, "There is known
to the author only one other long Pilgrim period trestle, that being in
the Bolles Collection, Metropolitan Museum. One or two short examples,
like 805, have recently been found. The collector should be very
careful not to confuse the Shaker type of the early 19th century with a
true Middle Age trestle and board table." *A board table MAY be a
sideboard, as there is discussion of sideboards in the previous section.
I highly suspect sideboards (or board tables), mentioned as being here
in the sates, may be the same as the consoles, mentioned in the French
Canada book. The discussions are very similar.

The writer says this board table was common in England and some samples
were found in North Carolina. The writer has not come upon an American
example, but such probably exist, or did. *Again, I've been just
scanning and reading some parts.

Apparently, leaning tables, or shelf type furniture, have been around,
in some form, for a long time, and even the Shakers may have had some
sort of leaning shelf or table, as Basilisk mentions. A further
(French) name, noted in the French book, for the console table is
credences. Other examples of variations of the console table is
demi-lune tables (old samples in the books, modern samples in the link
~~~)
http://www.bing.com/search?q=demi-lune+table&src=IE-
SearchBox&FORM=IE8SRC
.

Some of these old tables look neat. Lots of good pics in each of these
books. Pics are of furniture dating back to the 1600s. Shows, pretty
well, the progression of design(s) over time.

Sonny

I misread what you wrote Sonny, I thought you had ordered the book I
mentioned, my name is Bill also, got ahead of myself posting.

basilisk



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