Renaissance Furniture
The Gothic style, although widespread popularity in northern Europe, progress
recently in Italy, and by the mahogany cheese coaster year 1400 was developing a new style
alla quickly. This was the antique metal crib Renaissance style, a mixture of forms
Greco-Roman and Eastern ideas derived native of Constantinople, which
persisted until mid-seventeenth century (Grolier, 1997). If the antique [...]

Antique TABLES AND STANDS About 1630-1730
Portuguese side table, panels from 16thC Spanish cabinet forming the top.
Until about 1640, Louis X111 style still late-Renaissance with elaborately turned legs – a feature surviving until end of century in provincial France and other regions, e.g.
Portugal. Simultaneously, dramatic Italian baroque spreads through Europe, expressed in sculptural supports for tables [...]

TABLES AND STANDS About 1500-1630
German table on X-supports, before 1600.
Renaissance: After about 1530, mannerist influence in some examples. No dining-rooms as such in 16thC Italy – meals served wherever convenient, so many tables were still on trestles and easily dismantled; tops spread with damask cloths, oriental rugs, or covered with velvet, nailed on or draped. [...]