Low chest or table with drawers. Originating in the Jacobean period as a chest raised on a stand, its popularity continued through the English and American work of the 18th Century and it took various forms such as dressing tables, side tables, etc.
A low or short chest or table with drawers, often on short legs.
Waist-high chest of drawers standing on four long legs; frequently topped by another, taller chest of drawers (without legs) to form a Highboy.
A small side table on cabriole legs, from the first half of the 18th C.
American term for a small dressing table
A short chest or table with drawers, normally set on short legs.
A low chest of drawers on legs resembling the lower part of a highboy.
Chest or table under English with the drawers.
English low chest or table often with two layers and drawers. Made around 1700, lowboys often complimented highboys. Beginning in the Jacobean period by lifting a chest up on taller legs, the lowboy was quickly extended to side tables, dressing tables, and the like.
Another name for a dressing or side table in the form of a low chest on a frame or a table with drawers.
In America, a term for a dressing table, usually with one long drawer and three short ones, made en suite with a Highboy. The term is also used for English Queen Anne period dressing tables.
English or American low dressing table.
Originally, the lowboy was a chest with a stand. Now the form includes chest or table with drawers, often on short legs.
English low chest or table with drawers. Beginning in Jacobean times by raising a chest on a stand, it continues through the English and American work of the 18th Century in various s forms as dressing tables, side tables, etc.
A lowboy is a small table with one or two rows of drawers, so called in contradistinction to the tallboy or highboy chest of drawers. Both were favourite pieces of the 18th century, both in England and in the United States; the lowboy was most frequently used as a dressing-table, but sometimes as a side-table. It is usually made of oak, walnut or mahogany, with the drawerfronts mounted with brass pulls and escutcheons.