[1] Gueridons, _i.e._, stands to place lights or china upon.
The word is now used to signify any small round table with one foot;
but the old-fashioned stand, which was higher than a table, and its top
not bigger than a dessert plate, is occasionally to be met with.
[2] Looking-glasses with frames of the same material were much
in vogue at that period. Of silver-framed mirrors some magnificent
specimens remain to us at Knowle Park, Kent.