Baroque refectory table, ca. 1600.
Walnut wood.
Lower crossbeam from a later period. It has old xylophages. The key to the drawer is missing.
Measurements: 88.5 x 195.5 x 62 cm.
Refectory table dating from the 17th century and made of oak and walnut. The single-piece top stands out, as well as the carved work that runs along the entire skirt of the table, in which the drawers, legs and chambranes are inscribed. The skirt has three drawers decorated with carved vegetal motifs, motifs that are repeated on the sides. They stand on turned legs with button-shaped feet, connected laterally by smooth-profile chambranes. From the Latin refectus (refreshment), the refectory is the room used for monks' meals in monasteries and convents. It is generally rectangular in shape and is located in the gallery opposite the church. The tables are lined up along the walls. The monks are seated according to their rank of seniority; the abbot's or prior's table, at one end, presides over the others. The meals take place in silence, broken only by the bible readings, usually from a pulpit, by one of the monks.