Domestic Life in Scotland 1488 1688 a Sketch of the Development of Furniture a
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In old documents the THE DECAY OF FEUDALISM 113 laver is nearly always coupled with a basin, and the laver was the jug or ewer from which water was poured over the hands into the basin. These lavers and basins were of silver or of pewter according to the means of the owner. Table glass was still something of a rarity though a new fashion was the use of what was called a wine-cellar, fitted with " the haill flaccatis, glass and furneissing thairof. " In one house of the period there were three d...ozen " fyne lame (loam, or earthenware) potis for desertis, " but the employment of china or earthenware for table dishes was not yet intro- duced. The salt-fatt was generally of silver, and it stood in the middle of the table, and the division of the table into " above " and " below the salt " dates from this period and not from mediaeval times, when the dais table was reserved for those of superior rank, and the others sat at side tables. The persistence of ancient customs is well illustrated by the following description of a dinner in a farmhouse towards the end of the eighteenth century, and it will be noticed how closely many of the details correspond with the procedure at meals in the time of James VI.
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