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Lot Essay
This multi purpose table is closely based on a design for a universal table dated 1791 and published in Thomas Sheraton's The Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book, London, 3rd edition, 1802, plate 25.
In his description, Sheraton writes, 'The use of this piece is both to answer the purpose of a breakfast and a dining table. When both the leaves are slipped under the bed, it will then serve as a breakfast table; when one leaf is out, as in this view, it will accommodate five persons as a dining table, and if both are out it will admit of eight, being nearly seven feet long and three feet, six inches in width'.
In his description, Sheraton writes, 'The use of this piece is both to answer the purpose of a breakfast and a dining table. When both the leaves are slipped under the bed, it will then serve as a breakfast table; when one leaf is out, as in this view, it will accommodate five persons as a dining table, and if both are out it will admit of eight, being nearly seven feet long and three feet, six inches in width'.