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2. Tallboy (furniture) - Wikipedia

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   A highboy consists of double chest of drawers (a chest-on-chest), with the lower section usually wider than the upper. [3] A lowboy is a table-height set of drawers designed to hold a clothes chest, [1] which had been the predominant place one stored clothes for many centuries.

3. Lowboy - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. Chest of drawers - Wikipedia

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   The chest drawers were and are called by many names: LAMSAS database contains 37 answers to the request to name a chest of drawers, with "bureau" and "dresser" most popular at 52.5% and 17.5% respectively. [5] Chippendale called them "commode tables" or "commode bureau tables", Hepplewhite used the terms "commodes", "chests of drawers". At the ...

5. 12 Vintage and Antique Furniture Pieces That Could Be ... - AOL

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   Chippendale carved mahogany highboy (mid-1750s): $425,000. Chippendale George III Indian rosewood, fustic, tulipwood and marquetry dressing bureau (late-1700s): $400,000-$600,000.

6. Old York acquires rare 17th-century chest of drawers

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   The Weare Chest is one of the finest known chests of drawers produced by the shop tradition. Old York Historical Society has purchased a rare Boston chest of drawers that descended in the Weare ...

7. High chest of drawers (Indianapolis Museum of Art) - Wikipedia

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   This high chest of drawers, also known as a highboy or tallboy, is part of the Decorative Arts collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art in Indianapolis, Indiana. Made between 1760 and 1780 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, its design was inspired by British furniture-maker Thomas Chippendale. [1]