This form of three-drawer pier-table executed for the bedroom apartments was called a 'dressing table' in the early 18th century, but at the end of the century was also known as a 'low boy' in both England and America. Its apron-frame is serpentined in a triumphal-arched fret in harmony with its columnar 'truss' legs, whose form terminating in 'round toes' or pad feet was introduced in the 1720s (A. Bowett, 'Myths of English Furniture History: The Queen Anne Chair', Antique Collecting, June 2000, fig. 1).