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Oval drop-leaf dining table, built 1765–1785, and in the Decorative Arts and Design collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. A drop-leaf table is a table that has a fixed section in the center and a hinged section (leaf) on either side that can be folded down (dropped).
Queen Anne style furniture
Gateleg tables are a subset of the type known as a dropleaf. The hinged section, or flap, was supported on pivoted legs joined at the top and bottom by stretchers constituting a gate. Large flaps had two supports, which had the advantage of providing freer leg space in the centre. [ 1] The earliest gateleg tables of the 16th and 17th century ...
Duncan Phyfe (1768 – 16 August 1854) [1] was one of nineteenth-century America's leading cabinetmakers.. Rather than create a new furniture style, he interpreted fashionable European trends in a manner so distinguished and particular that he became a major spokesman for Neoclassicism in the United States, influencing a generation of American cabinetmakers.
The furniture of the Louis XV period (1715–1774) is characterized by curved forms, lightness, comfort and asymmetry; it replaced the more formal, boxlike and massive furniture of the Louis XIV style. It employed marquetry, using inlays of exotic woods of different colors, as well as ivory and mother of pearl. The style had three distinct periods.
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