eight 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.
9 item(s) found:
Victorian cedar eight-drawer chest with serpentine front
An Australian Fiddleback blackwood chest of drawers Manufacturer's plaque for W. H. Rocke & Co. Melbourne having an arrangement of eight drawers flanked by reeded stiles brass drop handles bun feet oval brass manufacturer's badge 117 x 145 x 56 cm
Original Victorian bow fronted cedar, eight drawer chest with carved columns, from the Barossa Valley
Huon pine eight drawer chest with barley twist columns, dated 1892
Cedar chest of eight drawers with carved corbels and turned feet
Cedar chest of eight drawers with a cantilevered top, full bobbin reel turnings, carved corbels and all of its original hardware
Cedar eight drawer gentleman's chest of drawers with barley twist columns, carved bunches of grapes and its original mother-of-pearl handles, originally from the Hunter Valley, NSW