Wine table

A Wine-table is a late 15th-century device for facilitating after-dinner drinking, the cabinetmakers called it a "Gentleman's Social Table."

It was always narrow and of semicircular or horseshoe form, and the guests sat round the outer circumference.

In the earlier and simpler shapes, metal wells for bottles and ice were sunk into the surface of the table; they were fitted with brass lids.

It has been conjectured that this bag was intended to hold biscuits, but it is much more likely that its function was to prevent glasses and bottles which might be upset from falling to the floor.

The wine table might be drawn up to the fire in cold weather without inconvenience from the heat.