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CANTERBURIES Circa 1790-1900  In 1803 Thomas Sheraton used the term to describe a small stand with partitions to hold music, which could be kept under the piano when not in use, and also a small trolley for transporting an informal supper. (A certain archbishop was supposed to have ordered one so as not to have to rise to eat) although the name is popularly thought to arise from the latter nearly all canterburies were made for music. Today they are mostly used as magazine racks.Made throughout the 19th century in varying qualities the majority being rectangular with a single drawer beneath three or four partitions open at the top, standing on four short, mainly turned legs ending on castors. Most of the earlier canterburies were made from mahogany or rosewood, figured walnut appearing during the Victorian era with the occasional papier-mache or bamboo. Occasionally brass inlay or brass ornaments were put on to Regency pieces; fret carving on scrolling and elaborate patterns on the Victorian ones |