Antique bedside table with marquetry french nightstand cabinet in mahogany with open front and 1 drawer on cabriole legs 1940s furniture.
Antique furniture table leg styles.
This sub category of the victorian era is probably the most feminine influenced style.
Early georgian furniture is based on queen anne.
Identifying antique furniture feet can help determine the approximate age of a piece along with the period in which it was made helping you research and value antique pieces more skillfully.
It was used on column supports as table legs and was often used on oak antique furniture.
But a leg can tell you when a style was first introduced and that is one important step in identifying an antique s age and period.
Early 17th century furniture typically featured bun or ball style feet.
The leg is usually a good indicator of type.
It s shapely curves identify it as a cabriole pronounced cab ree ole leg and that type of leg was first introduced in the 18th century.
If every journey begins with a single step the road to antique furniture knowledge can start with a foot specifically the antique foot style belonging to a chair chest or table.
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Later styles show classic influence.
Styles of table legs.
If you are looking for vintage tables for sale there are many different choices available.
This form of turning was used in the late 17th century but became very fashionable in the late victorian and edwardian periods.
A barley twist leg is a type of turning in the form of a spiral twist.
You can choose beautiful and functional antique three legged side tables antique end tables or a multitude of other styles.
Furniture periods between 1900 and 1950.
Look at this leg.
2006 publications international chair and table legs exhibit many of the features that distinguish furniture styles.
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Leg and foot styles.
Leg styles are key not only to the appearance and functionality of pieces but they can also be used to successfully identify many types of antique furniture furniture legs can provide clues to when a piece was manufactured especially when considering how they are used in conjunction with foot styles.
The style began in france and england but eventually migrated to america where it evolved into two other furniture styles naturalistic and renaissance revival.