How to pass the Nested Tables Test?
Nest of tables (also known as nested tables, nesting tables) is a set of few tables with progressively
smaller heights and frames, so that they can be stacked when not in use.[1] A smaller table slides inside
the frame of a larger one until it engages the edge of the back frame.[2]
Typically a set contains three (trio) or four (quartetto) tables.[1] Thomas Sheraton in his "Cabinet
Dictionary" (1803) describes the design as "kind of small worktable made to draw out of each other, and may
be used separately, and again enclosed within each other when not wanted". At the time, the nest of tables
was considered women's furniture.[3]
Sheraton's design was quickly replicated in China, with gilded and lacquered items mass-produced for sale in
the West.[3]