Chats on Cottage and Farmhouse Furniture

by Arthur Hayden

SMALL GATE TABLE. VERY EARLY TYPE.

Length, 3 ft.; breadth, 2 ft. 4 ins.; height, 2 ft. 3 ins. Urn legs with plain gates with survival of Gothic trestle feet.

GATE TABLE. MIDDLE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.

Early example. Height, 2 ft.; top, 2 ft. 9 ins. × 2 ft. 3 ins. Square gates and turned leg indicate early type. Trestle ends still retained.

(By the courtesy of Messrs. Phillips, Hitchin.)

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