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A lowboy is an American collectors term for one type of dressing table.Lowboy is a "collectors term for a dressing table made in 18th century America often with a matching highboy ". It is a small table with one or two rows of drawers, so called in contradistinction to (and designed to match) the tallboy or highboy chest of drawers.
Lowboys and tallboys were favorite pieces of the 18th century, both in
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History and description
Lowboys and tallboys were favorite pieces of the 18th century, both in England
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and in the United States
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; the lowboy was most frequently used as a dressing-table, but sometimes as a side-table. It is usually made of oak, walnut
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or mahogany
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, with the drawer-fronts mounted with brass pulls and escutcheons. The more elegant examples in the Queen Anne, early Georgian, and Chippendale styles often have cabriole legs, carved knees, and slipper or claw-and-ball feet. The fronts of some examples also are sculpted with the scallop-shell motif beneath the center drawer.
Another term for a dressing table equipped with mirrors is vanity and is used to apply makeup and other fashion accessories.
See also
*Chest of drawers
A chest of drawers, also called (especially in North American English) a dresser or a bureau, is a type of cabinet (a piece of furniture) that has multiple parallel, horizontal drawers generally stacked one above another.
In American English a ...
* Commode
A commode is any of many pieces of furniture. The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' has multiple meanings of "commode". The first relevant definition reads: "A piece of furniture with drawers and shelves; in the bedroom, a sort of elaborate chest ...
* List of desk forms and types
* Sideboard
Citations
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