A Large French Dinner Table

A large and wide 19th century French provincial dinner table of simple proportions, the top made from wide and long planks of poplar and pine with all-round 'bread-ends', standing on eight elegantly tapering, square-section oak legs. Typically, from its use in a traditional Bistro in rural Normandy, the top shows the markings of its long use (including a graffiti of someone's name, left by a long-ago user) and has developed a fruitwood like tonality. This table comfortably sits sixteen and has plenty of leg-room under it. Please note the dentil-shaped cut in the centre of this table, which allows the table to be divided into two parts for ease of transport and storage. Area of Caen, circa 1880.