The second style of the first type with a flaring skirt is shown in Figure 732, the property of Mr. George S. Palmer, of New London. It has the regular rectangular top with raised edges, and the skirt is flared and moulded, the moulding terminating on the legs in a scroll. The legs are cabriole and delicate and are finished with the bird's claw and ball feet. At either end are candle-slides.

A very beautiful little table of mahogany of this same type is shown in Figure 733. The rectangular top does not project over the frame, and the flaring skirt is well carved in a leaf pattern. The legs are cabriole, terminating in bird's claw and ball feet, and on the legs is carved an acanthus-leaf design. This table is in the Bulkeley Collection.

Figure 731. Tea-Table, second quarter eighteenth century.

Figure 733. Tea-Table, third quarter eighteenth century.

The second type of tea-table with a heavy skirt is shown in Figure 734. The top is cut in cyma curves without the raised edge and the skirt is cut in cyma curves and half circles.

Another example of a tea-table of this second type with a flaring skirt, in the writer's possession, is shown in Figure 735. Below the tray top is a wide plain surface and below that a flaring skirt cut in a series of double cyma curves. The piece stands on cabriole legs which terminate in Dutch feet.

Another example of this style of tea-table is shown in Figure 736. Under the tray is a drawer and below is a flaring skirt with a small projection at the centre cut in cyma curves and a half circle. The legs are cabriole and terminate in Dutch feet.

A little different form of tray-top table, the property of Mrs. E. W. Jenkins, of New Haven, is shown in Figure 737. The tray edge of the top is composed of a fret design with handles at the centre of the sides and ends. The skirt is cut in a series of curves and finished with a carved godrooned edge. At the centre of the skirt is carved a shell with streamers. The legs are cabriole and terminate in bird's claw and ball feet, and the knees are carved in the acanthus-leaf design.

Tea-Table, second quarter eighteenth century.

Figure 735. Tea-Table, second quarter eighteenth century.

Tea-Table, third quarter eighteenth century.

Figure 737. Tea-Table, third quarter eighteenth century.

Tea-Table, domed stretchers, third quarter eighteenth century.

Still a different form of tea-table is shown in Figure 738 and is the property of Professor Barrett Wendell. It is underbraced, with a domed centre composed of C scrolls. The legs are straight, with double ogee moulded surfaces, and at the corners are bracket frets. The top originally had a fret gallery. Very few of this type of tea-table are found in this country.

Figure 739. Tea-Table, domed stretchers, about 1760.

Figure 739 is shown to illustrate the model from which the preceding table was probably taken. The domed underbracing is the same but with detail carried out to its perfection. The legs are cabriole, terminating in French scroll feet, with surfaces carved in acanthus scrolls. The lower edge of the top is also carved in the same design. The sides and ends are serpentine and a very beautiful fret gallery finishes the top. The table is, of course, English and is the property of Mr. Richard A. Canfield.

Another form of X-braced table is shown in Figure 740 and is the property of Mr. Richard A. Canfield. Small tables with two short leaves became popular in the last half of the eighteenth century and were called "Pembroke" tables. They seem to have been used principally as breakfast-tables. They are found cross-braced and without bracing, and in Chippendale, Shearer, Hepplewhite, and Sheraton styles. This table has cluster-column legs and cross-bracing, and the skirt is cut in Gothic form. The top is serpentine on the sides and ends and the edges are carved in a leaf pattern.

Figure 740. Pembroke Table, Chippendale style, 1760-70.

Figure 741. Pembroke Table, Chippendale style, 1770-80.

A plain form of these tables, of which many examples are found, is shown in Figure 741. The legs and cross-bracing are perfectly plain, but it is apparent that the table is of the same kind as that shown in the preceding figure reduced to its lowest terms. The corners of the leaves are rounded and there are frets at the angles formed by the legs and rails.