'Tallboy' is the term used to describe a chest-on-chest and seems to have first been used in the late 18th Century, appearing in the Gillows Cost Books of 1784. It is usual to have three small drawers at the top, and in many cases, a central arched section at the bottom of the tallboy, inlaid with a sunburst of holly and ebony - an idea adopted from Holland and found on some of the finest tallboys of the period (C. Claxton Stevens and S. Whittington, 18th Century English Furniture, The Norman Adams Collection, Woodbridge, 1983, pp 367-369).