dressoir

Updated: May 5, 2025

It must be borne in mind, in considering the furniture of the earlier part of the sixteenth century, that the religious persecutions of the time, together with the general break-up of the feudal system, had gradually brought about the disuse of the old custom of the master of the house taking his meals in the large hall or "houseplace," together with his retainers and dependants; and a smaller room leading from the great hall was fitted up with a dressoir or service cupboard, for the drinking vessels in the manner just described, with a bedstead, and a chair, some benches, and the board on trestles, which formed the table of the period.

Frederick Litchfield - Illustrated History of Furniture: From the Earliest to the Present Time

Peter and Maximian at Rome, Ravenna and Venice Edict of Leo III. prohibiting Image worship the Rise of Venice Charlemagne and his successors the Chair of Dagobert Byzantine character of Furniture Norwegian carving Russian and Scandinavian the Anglo-Saxons Sir Walter Scott quoted Descriptions of Anglo-Saxon Houses and Customs Art in Flemish Cities Gothic Architecture the Coronation Chair at Westminster Abbey Penshurst French Furniture in the 14th Century Description of rooms the South Kensington Museum Transition from Gothic to Renaissance German carved work: the Credence, the Buffet, and Dressoir.

Frederick Litchfield - Illustrated History of Furniture: From the Earliest to the Present Time