Windsor Georgian Double Bow with cabriole legs

A club foot is a type of rounded foot for a piece of furniture, such as the end of a chair leg. It is also known by the alternative names pad foot and Dutch foot, the latter sometimes corrupted into duck foot. Such feet are rounded flat pads or disks at the end of furniture legs. Pad feet were regularly used on

cabriole leg A cabriole leg is one of (usually) four vertical supports of a piece of furniture shaped in two curves; the upper arc is convex, while lower is concave; the upper curve always bows outward, while the lower curve bows inward; with the axes of the ...

s during the 18th century.It used the hoof foot in many places, and also the pad foot (most popular in present-day cabriole legs) ... They can be found on tables, chairs, and some early sofas. Pad feet were first seen in the French and

Italian Renaissance The Italian Renaissance ( it, Rinascimento ) was a period in Italian history covering the 15th and 16th centuries. The period is known for the initial development of the broader Renaissance culture that spread across Europe and marked the trans ...

periods and have been widely used ever since. Pad feet can still be seen on some classical furniture.

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