Until the mid-19th century, the standard chest had either four long, or three long and two short drawers. Rarely were there any exceptions to this rule. A chest with three drawers, or a series of small upper drawers, purporting to be Georgian, will probably have been converted from a chest-on-chest or tallboy. It is true that the 18th century commode often contain two long deep drawers, but this was a much grander and more decorative piece altogether, intended for drawing rooms, not bedrooms, and in any case was usually made to stand on legs. The standard chest of drawers continued to be made throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries (some Edwardian pine chests even had bracket feet), but variations were introduced during the mid-Victorian period, with some chests having seven or more drawers usually a deep hat drawer and smaller glove compartments. Chests with more...

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An Art Deco style walnut veneered chest of four drawers with…

Art Deco Walnut Veneered Chest with Split Barley Twist Columns

An Art Deco style walnut veneered chest of four drawers with split barley twist column decoration and turned feet, circa 1950, 115 cm high, 77 cm wide, 47 cm deep

An Art Deco style walnut veneered dressing chest of three…

Art Deco Walnut Dressing Chest with Barley Twist Columns

An Art Deco style walnut veneered dressing chest of three drawers with split barley twist column decoration, turned feet and circular mirror plate to the back, circa 1950, 176 cm high, 107 cm wide, 49 cm deep

An Austrian Art Deco three drawer waterfall chest of drawers,…

Austrian Art Deco Chest of Drawers with Karelian Birch

An Austrian Art Deco three drawer waterfall chest of drawers, Karelian birch and macassar ebony with ivorine handles, circa 1925, 90 cm high, 50 cm wide, 56 cm deep

An Austrian Art Deco five drawer lingerie chest, Karelian birch…

Art Deco Lingerie Chest in Karelian Birch and Ebony

An Austrian Art Deco five drawer lingerie chest, Karelian birch and macassar ebony, circa 1925, 80 cm high, 42 cm wide, 48 cm deep

An Australian Art Deco four drawer chest, stained solid silky…

Australian Art Deco Solid Oak Chest, 1930s

An Australian Art Deco four drawer chest, stained solid silky oak, Queensland origin, circa 1930s, 78 cm high, 61 cm wide, 33 cm deep

An Art Deco walnut and mahogany tall boy 126 cm high, 74 cm…

Art Deco Walnut & Mahogany Tall Boy

An Art Deco walnut and mahogany tall boy 126 cm high, 74 cm wide, 39 cm deep

An Art Deco fiddleback blackwood dressing chest, drawer signed…

Art Deco Blackwood Dressing Chest with Cheval Mirror

An Art Deco fiddleback blackwood dressing chest, drawer signed and dated N. Lykke 1931, with cheval mirror above seven drawers, in the Chippendale style with fretwork brackets, once in the main bedroom of Barford, from 1954, 76 cm wide, 62 cm deep, 222 cm…

An Art Deco six drawer chest in fiddle back and burr timbers,…

Art Deco Marble Top Chest of Drawers

An Art Deco six drawer chest in fiddle back and burr timbers, circa 1930, a rouge and grey marble top, small inlaid rosettes with mother-of-pearl decorations to the upper edges, the equal drawers with decorative lozenge escutcheons and raised on short…

An Impressive New Zealand made Art Deco style chest of drawers,…

Art Deco Kahikatea Chest of Drawers

An Impressive New Zealand made Art Deco style chest of drawers, in kahikatea, with three secretaire drawers raised over five banks of double drawers with unusual full length continuous relief handles extending to sides, height105 cm, width112 cm

A small Art Deco oak chest of drawers with bakelite mounts. 98…

Art Deco Oak Chest with Bakelite Mounts

A small Art Deco oak chest of drawers with bakelite mounts. 98 cm high, 64 cm wide, 42 cm deep

Superb Art Deco walnut lowboy wardrobe silky oak lined, with…

Art Deco Walnut Lowboy Wardrobe with Hanging & Shelves

Superb Art Deco walnut lowboy wardrobe silky oak lined, with hanging compartment to the left and drawers, shelves to the right, 110 cm wide, 62 cm deep, 153 cm high

An Art Deco Macassar ebony chest, Continental, circa 1930

Art Deco Macassar Ebony Chest, 1930 Continental

An Art Deco Macassar ebony chest, Continental, circa 1930

A fine Art Deco break front wardrobe in figured walnut veneer,…

Art Deco Figured Walnut Break Front Wardrobe

A fine Art Deco break front wardrobe in figured walnut veneer, possibly French with central arched cupboard with shell scroll moulding, above chest of drawers, flanked by wardrobes with scroll moulded pediments, one fitted with rail the other with shelf…