Period term for 18th-century tables with marble tops. Use "mixing tables" for marble-topped tables with a superstructure containing drawers for decanters and a tambour roll top which descends to cover the marble slab when the table is not in use.
AAT
3000134053
drinking tables (slab tables)
frames, slab
marble tables (slab tables)
marble-topped tables
mixing tables (slab tables)
pier tables (slab tables)
slab frames
tables, drinking (slab tables)
tables, marble (slab tables)
tables, marble-topped
tables, mixing (slab tables)
tables, pier (slab tables)
tables, slab
13yrs ago
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