A lowboy is an American collectors term for one type of dressing table, vanity, or duchess (Australian English). It is a small table with one or two rows of drawers, so called in contradistinction to the tallboy or highboy chest of drawers.
Video Lowboy
History and description
Both lowboy and tallboy 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 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 centre drawer.
Another term for a dressing table equipped with mirrors is vanity and is used to applying makeup or fashion accessories.
Maps Lowboy
See also
- Chest of drawers
- Commode
- Pedestal desk
Notes
References
- Campbell, Gordon (2006). The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts: (Two-volume Set). 1. Oxford University Press. pp. 61, 331, 479. ISBN 9780195189483.
- Loomis IV, Frank Farmer (2011). Antiques 101: A Crash Course in Everything Antique (2 ed.). Krause Publications. p. 59. ISBN 9781440227387.
- Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Lowboy". Encyclopædia Britannica. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 72.
External links
- Dressing Tables collection at the Disseny Hub Barcelona
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