Drop Leaf Table with Trestle Legs and Straight Gates
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Caption
American. Drop Leaf Table with Trestle Legs and Straight Gates, ca. 1690. Cherry wood. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Jerome Blum, 64.201. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 64.201_bw.jpg)
Collection
Collection
Culture
Title
Drop Leaf Table with Trestle Legs and Straight Gates
Date
ca. 1690
Medium
Cherry wood
Classification
Signatures
no signature
Inscriptions
no inscriptions
Markings
no marks
Credit Line
Gift of Jerome Blum
Accession Number
64.201
Rights
Creative Commons-BY
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Frequent Art Questions
Why is there a carpet under the table cloth?
In the seventeenth century, the carpet was the actual table cloth! The tables in Dutch houses of the period were not intended to be seen bare, but were expected to be covered with the best textiles that money could buy, the same type that covered their floors and walls. The carpet was too valuable to be placed on the floor and so at this time they were displayed on tables. This display evokes the Schenck's dining room as it looked during a meal, with the white linen protecting the lush, richly-woven Oriental textile from spills and stains. After the meal, the dinnerware and the white linen would be cleared and the rug would once again command guests' attention as one of the more expensive showpieces in the Schenck's dining room.
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