five drawer - chests of drawers
Chest of drawers. 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 barley-sugar twist or split bobbin-turned supports date from the mid-19th century.
20 item(s) found:
A fine early Austalian colonial cedar chest fitted with five drawers
A cedar chest of five drawers. Width 103 cm
A substantial cedar five drawer plan chest 89 x 182x xx 77 cm Inserted brass handles, on short turned feet. A cedar example is rare. Provenance: Private collection, NSW
Colonial five drawer chest of drawers, cedar
An Australian blackwood chest of drawers Tasmania, with huon pine lined drawers and silky oak diamond lozenges, having an arrangement of five drawers 120 x 130 x 50 cm
Five drawer chest of small square proportions, a refined and Important first period Hepplewhite inspired early colonial bracket foot cedar five drawer chest of small square proportions Tasmanian, Hobart,…
Early colonial full cedar five drawer chest of drawers on bracket feet with triple reeded decoration around top and shaped apron at front and sides. drawers decorated with scribe line cockbeading - 119 cm Wide x 123 cm High x 59 cm Deep
Late Victorian huon pine chest of five drawers in restored condition
Flame mahogany Scotch chest of five drawers with barley sugar twists, mother of pearl handles and ash lined drawers. in restored condition
Five drawer period chest of drawers in Queensland maple, repolished condition.
Late victorian pollard oak chest of five drawers with its original handles
Mahogany bow fronted chest of five drawers with bracket feet, a swept apron and cock beaded drawer fronts
Victorian solid huon pine chest of five drawers with a single plank top, rounded corners and bun feet
Red cedar chest of five drawers with turned half columns and turned feet
Colonial full cedar chest of five drawers with its original ebonised knobs and turned squat feet
Cedar chest with five drawers and shaped legs
Colonial cedar chest of seven drawers with a pine back, a platform base, mother-of-pearl inlays to the knobs and brass escutcheons to five drawers