kauri - 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.
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A good quality New Zealand colonial kauri Scotch chest with central top hat drawer, pair small drawers either side and three full width drawers below, mottled facings with burr Totara panel to the top hat drawer, turned wood handles,…
A New Zealand colonial chest, solid mottle top, sides and front, tophat drawer with pair small drawers either side and three graduated full width drawers below, rounded front corners, deep thumbnail top edge, original metal handles and plinth base.…
A mottled kauri chest of four drawers, bun handles, brass escucheons on bun feet. Height 89 cm. Width 102 cm
Generously made solid kauri pine Edwardian chest of three full length drawers, with bevelled drawer fronts
Solidly built colonial kauri pine chest of four drawers with rounded corners its original turned knobs and brass escutcheons
Edwardian solid kauri pine chest of three full length drawers, with bevelled drawer fronts and a moulded top