Neferetiabet bas-relief, with table and chair. Fourth dynasty of Egypt, c. 2600 BC C.
The table is typical and primitive for the first time in the epoch of the ancient dynasties of Egypt from Predynastic times, thirty centuries before Christ. It has a rectangular folding chairs or circular with a central support, or legs at its four angles. The scissors with feet crossed and articulated was in use among the Egyptians and ancient towns, is very common in one and the other the pinnacle of the feet on the bottom folding chair a kind of tiger claw, or hoof of ruminant.
The table three feet radius of one foot were known to Egyptians and other Eastern peoples. However, it was the Greeks and Romans who used them the most. The Delphic tripods and tables were used primarily for omens and student chairs pagan sacrifices and chairs one foot tables, which often represents the figure of a slave, in other finishes below three small feet, served mainly on couches or canteens. Among the Greeks and Romans were also utilized two feet, topped by a panel formed at the ends of two animal figures. The Egyptians, Greeks and still more, produced the tables with school equipment legs bent, use it many centuries later followed the Baroque style and, above all, the rococo of Louis XV.
In ancient civilizations are not destined for the table to desk, as the scribes plied their trade on the floor school furniture on her knees. But from the first centuries of the Middle Ages, tables are dining chairs used for this purpose but also in forms always very simple.
In the Renaissance presents luxury tables decorated with inlays and down-turned or carved. when I was a student we didn