Lowboy

For the type of vehicle, see Lowboy (trailer).
A lowboy is a low chest or table with drawers and short legs. This watercolor of a lowboy has four drawers, metal handles and feet, and a shiny varnish.
Henry Moore, Lowboy, c. 1936. Image commissioned for the Index of American Design, the watercolor drawing is located within the National Gallery of Art

A lowboy is an American collectors term for one type of dressing table.[1] It is a small table with one or two rows of drawers, so called in contradistinction to (and designed to match[2]) the tallboy or highboy chest of drawers.[3][4]

History and description

Lowboys and tallboys were favorite 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 center drawer.[4]

Another term for a dressing table equipped with mirrors is vanity and is used to apply makeup and other fashion accessories.[5]

See also

Citations

  1. ^ Lowboy is a "collectors term for a dressing table made in 18th century America often with a matching highboy (Campbell 2006, pp. 61, 479)".
  2. ^ Gloag 1952, Lowboy.
  3. ^ Loomis IV 2011, p. 59.
  4. ^ a b Chisholm 1911, p. 17.
  5. ^ Campbell 2006, pp. 331.

General and cited references

  • Campbell, Gordon (2006). The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts: (Two-volume Set). Vol. 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.
  • Gloag, John (1952). A Short Dictionary Of Furniture. Read Books Ltd. ISBN 978-1-4474-9772-1. OCLC 1099027952. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
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