A TRUMPET-TURNED Lowboy. Owner: Mr. G. Winthrop Brown.
The name of trumpet given to the legs of this piece describes them with ac-
curacy, especially as they are at the tops, without the cup, or inverted bowl
turnings of the two lowboys that follow. The double arch mold dates this
specimen a little later, about 1700-20. The X scroll stretcher is very simple.
The feet here are smaller than any others we have seen. Like other exam-
ples, it has the thumb-nail molding. Like all, except the first shown, on
page 423, it has the walnut veneer.
The legs of these pieces in walnut, are very often of other woods. Bass
is a common wood, and very unsuitable, as it is weak, and this six-leg style
is always weak in the legs. In fact, in the corresponding highboys, it is
seldom that one or two legs are not broken. On the other hand the scrolled
stretcher on a walnut piece, is generally walnut.

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