Dutch ‘Kwab’ Table c.1670 and LaterA Dutch carved pine Kwab table c. 1670 and later. The fantastically designed Kwab table is a great example of furniture from a very small and specific frame of time. The kwab style is the most important Dutch contribution to the development of decorative art in Europe. In the 17th century fluid forms of ornamentation became fashionable in art such as sea creatures, beasts, fluid contours found within nature and the undulating forms of the body. The