I've attempted to organize the tables by type, and then within each type, chronologically. Paintings and illustrations have been included where they show particularly interesting details of a table's design or construction.

This page focuses on two types of medieval trestle tables for now, but may be expanded to other types of tables later.

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• The Luttrell family at dinner from the Luttrell Psalter (Brit. Lib. Add. 42130, fol. 208r), c. 1325-1340
• Guiron learns of Asue's misdeeds, Guiron le Courtois (BNF NAL 5243, fol. 75r), c. 1370-1380
• Feast of Job, Bible historiale (BNF Fr. 164), fourth quarter of the 14th century
• Castration of the Hebrews, Bible historiale (BNF Fr. 159, fol. 232v), 14th-15th century
• Lancelot at Corbenic, Tristen de Léonois (BNF Fr. 97, fol. 548), first quarter of the 15th century
• A wealthy man at dinner, 15th century
• Atreus' revenge, De casibus (BNF Fr. 229, fol. 16v), c. 1435-1440
• Christ in the House of Simon by Dieric Bouts the Elder, 1440s
• February (fol. 2r) and October (fol. 10r) in a book of hours (PML M.358), c. 1440-1450
• A meal, Facta et dicta memorabilia (BNF Fr. 43, fol. 1), mid-15th century
• Feast of Esther, Fleur des histoires (BNF Fr. 55, fol. 129v), second half of the 15th century
• Jean Mansel, Fleur des histoires (BNF Fr. 56, fol. 203), second half of the 15th century
• Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew, Fleur des histoires (BNF Fr. 57, fol. 39), second half of the 15th century
• St. Mary Madeleine from the Book of Hours of Étienne Chevalier (Musée Condé 71, fol. 37r), ca. 1455
• Tristan and Dinadan at the house of Pelinier, Tristen de Léonois (BNF Fr. 102, fol. 179v), c. 1470
• The author Titus Livius (or the translator Pierre Bersuire?) at work, Ab urbe condita (BNF Fr. 273, fol. 7), c. 1475
• Feast of Balthazar, Antiquities of the Jews (BNF Fr. 13, fol. 266), fourth quarter of the 15th century
• Dissection, De proprietatibus rerum (BNF Fr. 218, fol. 56), fourth quarter of the 15th century
• Roundel with three apes building a trestle table (Met 1990.119.3), c. 1480-1500
• Servants in a book of hours (BNF NAL 3116, fol. 1v), end of the 15th century
• January in the Grimani Breviary, c. 1490-1510
• Hero, Ovid's Heroides (BNF Fr. 873, fol. 125v), 15th-16th century
• Embalming of Alexander's body, History of Alexander the Great (BNF Fr. 711, fol. 41v), 15th-16th century
• St. Mary Magdalene washing the feet of Christ, Hours of Henry VIII (PML H.8, fol. 187v), c. 1500
• February in the Book of Hours of Anne of Brittany (BNF Lat 9474, fol. 5), c. 1503-1508
• St. Matthewthe Hours of Frederick of Aragon (BNF Latin 10532, fol. 2), c. 1501-1504
• Table made in Tuscany, c. 1540

• Tables, 15th century Italy
• Table, 15th century southern Germany
• The miracle of the fishes of St. Ulrich, c. 1450-1455
• A meal, a textbook for Maximilian I (ÖNB 2368, fol. 13), c. 1460-1465
• Detail from The Birth of Mary from an altarpiece at Biertan, Romania, c. 1480-1500
• Christ at the house of Mary and Martha in a prayerbook (ÖNB 1960, fol. 130v), c. 1495-1505
• Gothic chest-table, upper Austria, end of the 15th century,/li>
• Table, Tyrol, c. 1500
• Box-table, Germany, c. 1500 (also here)
• Box-table, c. 1500 (also here)
• Box-table, Ulm, c. 1500 (side view)
• St. Jerome in his Study by Albrecht Dürer, 1511
• The miracle of the fishes of St. Ulrich by Hans Holbein the Elder, 1512
• October in a book of hours, 1515
• Signboard for the schoolmaster Myconius by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1516
• Detail from the healing of the paralyzed woman, from an Austrian altarpiece of the miracles of Mary, c. 1518-1522
• Detail from The Birth of Mary, c. 1520
• Table made c. 1550-1620
• Table, France, second half of the 16th century (also here and here)
• Martin Luther as Jerome by Wolfgang Stuber, c. 1587-1597
• Elm refectory table, 17th century