Featured 17th century table

Looks ok to me for an early Irish provincial gateleg.

 

leg structure is radically different to yours..

 

legs , still not the same design.....

 

O think they are fairly simular different as ours is not straight but has the same design opens the same top the same

 

Very Different .. Joy.

 

I will post a pic tommrow of the table closed

 

radically different

 

even the table top looks to be thicker, as well.

 

Is that a wooden peg at the top of the leg

 

I'm sorry but to me that is not radically different there is carved legs on one but not the other tgey both have the same structure and same opening. Thickness of table is not the issue !!

 

Yeah there is on the table

 

Just wondering if that would indicate more age

 

I voiced my opinion.....but not being a furniture expert I'll leave it to others to explain that just because you think they look the same..... why they are not the same. The differences speak volumes.

 

I agree, the tables in both links are very different from Elaine's. Yes, they are old gatelegs, but that's where the similarity ends imo.

 

Yeah they used them on 17th century furniture

Up to the early 18th century, most early England furniture was ‘joined ‘or ‘pegged’ in their construction, using mortise and tenon joints held together by wooden dowels or pegs, or occasionally clout nails. Early wooden pegs were of irregular or square ended in a tapering form; they acted like wedges and tightened the joints as they were hammered in

 

Everyone is entitled to their opinion . I'm not saying they are the same just the have the same construction the same opening and supported by having a platform as it's called in the middle .

 

I didn't say tgey we're the same . Just the same design as in tgey are all platform gate leg tablets. It would be impossible to get antique furniture the same no ikeas back then lol . Ah no but do you understand what I mean

 

My dad restores furniture so I will put up a picture of it when he is finished with it

 

The i word!! You evil woman!
Well, you know what we mean. There are many gatelegs out there. Saying the ones in the links are similar to yours is stretching it a bit too much, imo.
Would love to see it restored.

 

Lol . I know I hate the I word would have a bonfire with it . I know I think I was picked up wrong was saying tgey were the same style ours clearly has some sort of doric columns. He is a very talented man brings them back to their former glory but doesn't overdo it like some can . I've a modern home but every piece of furniture in it apart from my bed and my 3 boys beds is antique and most of it my dad restored for me even my pictures are all old hate modern crap