Lowboy

A lowboy

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]

  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. ^ Chisholm 1911, p. 17.