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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A transitional style marble topped tulipwood commode, late 19th…

Marble Top Tulipwood Commode with Gilt Bronze Mounts

A transitional style marble topped tulipwood commode, late 19th century the kidney shaped commode with a breche d'Alep marble top above three slightly curved front drawers with strung reserves, a shaped apron, raised on sabre legs with gilt bronze mounts…

A transitional style mahogany marble top commode, circa 1900…

A transitional style mahogany marble top commode, circa 1900 with a grey mottled marble top of slightly breakfront form, rounded corners and moulded edges, above three full width drawers, each with gilt bronze wreath ring handles and escutcheons, the…

A transitional style tulipwood commode by Haentges Freres,…

A transitional style tulipwood commode by Haentges Freres, Haentges Freres (Paris), mid 20th century with a mottled white marble top of breakfront form with canted corner above two striking parquetry drawers in contrasting timber, with ring handles and…

A pair of transitional style tulipwood small commodes, circa…

Transitional Tulipwood Commodes with Marble Top and Inlay

A pair of transitional style tulipwood small commodes, circa 1930 each with demilune mottled rouge and white marble top above two cross-banded drawers with strung reserves and floral inlay, with sides conforming, with a shaped apron and curvaceous legs,…

A transitional style marble topped commode, mid 20th century,…

Mid-Century Marble Commode with Parquetry and Bronze Ornaments

A transitional style marble topped commode, mid 20th century, of slightly breakfront form with a variegated polychrome marble top over two drawers well ornamented with brocade pattern parquetry and cross-banding in contrasting strung reserves, with bronze…

A transitional style tulipwood marble topped commode, circa…

Marble Top Commode with Gilt Bronze Mounts

A transitional style tulipwood marble topped commode, circa 1900, the kidney shaped mottled marble top on an oval cabinet with two drawers with strung reserves to bookend veneers, sides conforming, with gilt bronze handles and escutcheons, upon simple…

A transitional style tulipwood marble topped commode, late 19th…

Transitional Tulipwood Commode with Marble Top

A transitional style tulipwood marble topped commode, late 19th century, the kidney shaped mottled rouge marble top with brass gallery on an oval cabinet with two drawers decorated with bird's eye birch veneer with ebonised and walnut stringing, with gilt…

A transitional style marble topped kingwood commode, circa 1900…

Marble Top Kingwood Commode with Ornate Veneer Panels

A transitional style marble topped kingwood commode, circa 1900 of slightly breakfront form with a mottled gray marble top, above three full width drawers, well ornamented with book end veneer panels in contrasting timbers and stringing, the rounded…

A transitional style tulipwood inlaid commode, circa 1930 with…

Tulipwood Commode with Floral Marquetry and Bronze Mounts

A transitional style tulipwood inlaid commode, circa 1930 with a veined ochre marble top of serpentine profile, three drawers with floral marquetry to shaped reserves, hipped edges tapering to petite sabre legs, with cast bronze foliate handles, mounts…

A transitional style tulipwood commode, circa 1900 with a…

Transitional Tulipwood Commode with Marble Top and Gilt Bronze Mounts

A transitional style tulipwood commode, circa 1900 with a mottled pale orange bow front marble top with canted corners above two drawers with quarter veneer and book end veneer panelled and strung reserves decorated with floral vase and ribbons, a shaped…

A French transitional style commode stamped P Marquant, C1930…

French Transitional Style Parquetry Commode with Marble Top

A French transitional style commode stamped P Marquant, C1930 Of slightly breakfront form with an interesting veined and mottled amber to purple marble top above three drawers and two full width drawers, well ornamented with striking parquetry in…

A Louis XV/XVI transitional kingwood and tulipwood commode, the…

Louis XV/XVI Commode with Marble Top and Inlay

A Louis XV/XVI transitional kingwood and tulipwood commode, the Grey St Anne marble top, above an arrangement on three short and two long drawers inlaid sans traverse with key pattern bordered panels, with brass mounts to the angles and sabots to the…

A Louis XV transitional style kingwood commode, 19th century,…

Louis XV Commode with Gilt Bronze Mounts

A Louis XV transitional style kingwood commode, 19th century, of serpentine outline, the variegated marble top above two drawers, the drawer fronts and sides veneered in diaper lattice pattern, the mounts gilt bronze, height 76 cm, width 80 cm, depth 39 cm

A transitional style inlaid mahogany commode, circa 1930s, with…

Inlaid Mahogany Commode with Floral Urn Design

A transitional style inlaid mahogany commode, circa 1930s, with a cream and blush breakfront marble top above three dentil moulded hidden frieze drawers and two long drawers, the central panel finely inlaid with a floral urn flanked by lattice designs,…

A 19th century French walnut and marble commode, in the…

French Walnut and Marble Commode in Transitional Style

A 19th century French walnut and marble commode, in the transitional style, the white veined marble top above a frieze drawer and three further graduated drawers, raised on shaped block feet, height 102 cm, width 131 cm, depth 60 cm

A transitional style tulipwood commode, circa 1900, the commode…

Parquetry Tulipwood Commode with Marble Top and Gilt Mounts

A transitional style tulipwood commode, circa 1900, the commode with a grey mottled marble top of breakfront form above two striking parquetry drawers in contrasting timber, with ring handles and circular backplates, and raised on cabriole legs with gilt…

A French transitional mahogany commode, circa 1880, the rouge…

French Mahogany Commode with Brass Ormolu, 1880

A French transitional mahogany commode, circa 1880, the rouge champhered marble plate top, above three drawers and an apron with brass banding, handles, and ormolu, upon cabriole legs, 93.5 cm high, 100 cm wide, 45 cm deep

Louis XV transitional style mahogany and marquetry commode,…

19th Century Mahogany Marquetry Commode

Louis XV transitional style mahogany and marquetry commode, 19th century, grey marble top of serpentine outline, above three crossbanded and burr walnut drawers, sides with similar marquetry, raised tapering legs with sabots, height 93 cm, width 147 cm,…

A transitional style tulipwood commode, circa 1930s, with a…

Breche D'Alep Marble Top Tulipwood Commode

A transitional style tulipwood commode, circa 1930s, with a breche D'Alep marble top of breakfront profile above three long drawers with parquetry details, an ornamented drop and raised on cabriole legs, with cast bronze wreath swing handles and sabots,…

French transitional style marble topped commode, 86 cm high,…

French Marble Top Commode in Transitional Style

French transitional style marble topped commode, 86 cm high, 173 cm wide, 47 cm deep

Antique French small transitional revival two drawer commode,…

French Two-Drawer Commode in Transitional Revival Style

Antique French small transitional revival two drawer commode, 80 cm high, 94 cm wide, 43 cm deep

A transitional style tulipwood inlaid commode, circa 1930, with…

Tulipwood Commode with Floral Marquetry and Bronze Mounts

A transitional style tulipwood inlaid commode, circa 1930, with a mottled ochre marble top of serpentine profile, three drawers with floral marquetry to shaped reserves, hipped edges tapering to petite sabre legs, with cast bronze foliate handles, mounts…

A French Transitional walnut three drawer marble top commode,…

French Walnut Marble Top Commode, 3 Drawers

A French Transitional walnut three drawer marble top commode, 87 cm high, 128 cm wide, 51 cm deep.

Antique French transitional marble topped three drawer commode,…

French Marble Top Commode with Three Drawers

Antique French transitional marble topped three drawer commode, 89 cm high, 123 cm wide, 51 cm deep

A small transitional style marble topped kingwood commode,…

Marble Top Kingwood Commode with Cast Mounts

A small transitional style marble topped kingwood commode, circa 1900, a kidney shaped commode raised on tapered and angled curvaceous legs with, book end veneer reserves to the two drawers, sides and reverse enclosed by string barber's pole borders, with…

A transitional style marble topped commode, circa 1930s, of…

Marble Top Commode with Floral Inlay and Bronze Mounts

A transitional style marble topped commode, circa 1930s, of slightly breakfront form with three drawers well ornamented with floral, inlay, perspective cube parquetry and key fret borders, with bronze mounts, and ring handles, curvaceous legs and sabots,…

A transitional style rosewood, mahogany and marquetry commode,…

Marquetry Commode with Gilt Bronze Handles

A transitional style rosewood, mahogany and marquetry commode, late 19th century, with a coffee coloured marble top above a frieze with trailing ivy leaf, inlay, a ribbon and garland inlaid ornament to the two long drawers, with, cast gilt bronze wreath…

A small transitional style marquetry commode, circa 1930s with…

Marquetry Commode with Floral Inlay and Bronze Mounts

A small transitional style marquetry commode, circa 1930s with a shaped marble top above two conforming drawers with floral inlay crossbanding and stringing, curvaceous legs, bronze ring handles and mounts., height 80 cm, width 72 cm, depth 39 cm

A fine transitional style walnut. Provincial commode, 18th…

18th Century Provincial Walnut Commode

A fine transitional style walnut. Provincial commode, 18th century, the deep commode of serpentine profile and of pegged construction with three heavy oak lined drawers, each with a trio of shaped and framed panels with neoclassical gilt bronze…

An antique transitional kingwood and tulipwood commode, late…

18th Century Kingwood and Tulipwood Commode with Marble Top

An antique transitional kingwood and tulipwood commode, late 18th century, with a breakfront grey black marble top above three drawers, each with three book end veneer panels with barber's pole borders and beaded ring handles with rosette backplates, with…

A fine transitional style kingwood commode, circa 1890, with…

Kingwood Commode with Inlaid Flora and Gilt Bronze Mounts

A fine transitional style kingwood commode, circa 1890, with stamp of A. Lenard to the corners under marble, with a fine cream, orange and grey breakfront marble top above two long drawers of conforming profile and finely inlaid with flora, urns and a…

A transitional style kingwood commode, circa 1930, with a…

Neoclassical Kingwood Commode with Marquetry and Ormolu Embellishments

A transitional style kingwood commode, circa 1930, with a mottled red and white marble top, a sectioned frieze drawer with applied and pierced ormolu neoclassical embellishments, and two long drawers with finely painted marquetry style flora and birds,…

A transitional style tulipwood commode, circa 1930s, with a…

1930s Tulipwood Commode with Brass Embellishments

A transitional style tulipwood commode, circa 1930s, with a serpentine mottled yellow top above three drawers with book end feathered veneers with crossbanding and stringing, the sides similar, with a shaped apron, curvaceous legs and embellished with…

A transitional style walnut and tulipwood marquetry commode,…

Walnut and Tulipwood Marquetry Commode with Gilt Bronze Mounts

A transitional style walnut and tulipwood marquetry commode, late 19th century, with a white and grey marble breakfront top with a long shallow drawer and two deeper drawers with cross banding, stringing and a central medallion enclosing an inlaid basket…

A French transitional style walnut and floral marquetry two…

Walnut and Floral Marquetry Commode with Marble Top

A French transitional style walnut and floral marquetry two drawer marble top commode, 87 cm high, 91 cm wide, 41 cm deep

A French transitional style parquetry decorated two drawer…

French Parquetry Commode with Marble Top

A French transitional style parquetry decorated two drawer marble top commode, 84 cm high, 89 cm wide, 43 cm deep

A French transitional style walnut commode with marble top, and…

French Walnut Commode with Floral Marquetry Decoration

A French transitional style walnut commode with marble top, and three drawers with floral marquetry decoration, 87 cm high, 83 cm wide, 46.5 cm deep

A fine transitional marquetry commode in mixed timbers, circa…

1930s Marquetry Commode with Neoclassical Mounts and Marble Top

A fine transitional marquetry commode in mixed timbers, circa 1930, with an orange red speckled marble top of shaped profile above two drawers with lattice and quatrefoil detail to the centre flanked by vases of flowers, a shaped apron with drop, extended…

A transitional style tulipwood and marquetry commode, late 19th…

Marquetry Commode with Gilt Bronze Mounts

A transitional style tulipwood and marquetry commode, late 19th to early 20th century, with a mottled orange bow front marble top with canted edges above two drawers with quarter veneer and book end veneer panelled and strung reserves decorated with…

A fine transitional style tulipwood bow front commode, early…

Transitional Tulipwood Bow Front Commode with Rocaille Mounts

A fine transitional style tulipwood bow front commode, early 20th century, with a vigorous flecked grey marble top above three book end veneer drawers with fine chequered border trims, similar feather banded reserves to the sides, having pilasters flowing…

Vintage French marble topped parquetry transitional style three…

French Marble Top Bronze Mount Commode

Vintage French marble topped parquetry transitional style three drawer commode, fitted with bronze mounts, 88 cm high, 100 cm wide, 48 cm deep

A fine French transitional Tulipwood and rosewood commode, 18th…

18th Century French Tulipwood Commode with Neoclassical Mounts

A fine French transitional Tulipwood and rosewood commode, 18th century. the commode of breakfront form with a grey and amber marble top, with three oak lined drawers with book end veneer panels, stringing, laurel garland swing handles and ribbon…

A French Transitional period four drawer walnut commode with…

French Walnut Commode with Marble Top and Pagny Fils Stamp

A French Transitional period four drawer walnut commode with marble top having stamp in drawer Pagny Fils, Paris. 82 cm high, 91 cm wide, 45 cm deep

A French transitional marble top commode. 79 cm high, 77 cm…

French Marble Top Commode

A French transitional marble top commode. 79 cm high, 77 cm wide, 45 cm deep

A French transitional mahogany three drawer secretaire commode.…

French Mahogany Secretaire Commode with Three Drawers

A French transitional mahogany three drawer secretaire commode. 96 cm high, 128 cm wide, 61 cm deep

A French early 19th century transitional period walnut and…

Walnut Commode with Marble Top

A French early 19th century transitional period walnut and marble top commode. 83 cm high, 94 cm wide, 54 cm deep

A fine French transitional walnut and marquetry commode, with a…

French Walnut Marquetry Commode with Marble Top

A fine French transitional walnut and marquetry commode, with a marble top, with two drawers, on tapering legs, with ormolu sabots. 87 cm high, 95 cm long, 45 cm deep

A pair of transitional style gilt metal mounted marble top…

Gilt Metal Marble Top Commodes with Foliate Marquetry

A pair of transitional style gilt metal mounted marble top Commodes rectangular, each with a marble top above two frieze drawers and two doors centred by foliate marquetry cartouches, 133 x 105 x 51 cm

A French transitional period commode with a yellow marble top…

French Marble Top Commode with Brass Banding

A French transitional period commode with a yellow marble top above three drawers with brass banding. 83 cm high, 129 cm wide, 58 cm deep

A French kingwood transitional commode, the top with ebony…

French Kingwood Commode with Ebony Banding and Ebonized Pilasters

A French kingwood transitional commode, the top with ebony banding, above three drawers flanked by ebonized fluted pilasters, on tapering legs. 90 cm high, 125 cm wide, 54 cm deep.

A French transitional style commode, the marble top, above a…

French Transitional Style Commode with Gilt Ormolu Decoration

A French transitional style commode, the marble top, above a pair of drawers, applied with gilt ringed handles, flanked by canted corners with applied ormolu swag decoration, on square tapering supports. 85 cm high, 88 cm wide, 42.5 cm deep.

A French transitional style elm commode, with a moulded edge,…

French Transitional Style Elm Commode with Fluted Pilasters

A French transitional style elm commode, with a moulded edge, above three short drawers, below a pair of graduated drawers, flanked by fluted pilasters. 70 cm high, 107 cm wide, 49 cm deep.

A French 18th century transitional ormolu-mounted kingwood,…

18th Century French Ormolu-Mounted Breakfront Commode

A French 18th century transitional ormolu-mounted kingwood, tulipwood and amaranth breakfront commode. It has a Turquin marble top with rounded corners to the front, which is above three long decorated drawers, the angles with scrolling foliate mounts, on…

French transitional style marble topped three drawer commode

French Marble Top 3-Drawer Commode in Transitional Style

French transitional style marble topped three drawer commode

A French transitional walnut and mahogany commode, the marble…

Transitional French Walnut Commode with Marble Top

A French transitional walnut and mahogany commode, the marble top above banded three drawers on tapering legs. 85 cm high, 118 cm wide, 50 cm deep.

A French transitional style walnut and parquetry commode, the…

French Walnut Parquetry Commode with Marble Top

A French transitional style walnut and parquetry commode, the yellow marble top of serpentine form above two drawers with parquetry decoration, gilt bronze ring handles, the sides with conforming decoration, with a shaped apron on cabriole legs. 85 cm…

A Transitional style kingwood marble topped commode, French…

French Kingwood Marble Commode with Bronze Mounts

A Transitional style kingwood marble topped commode, French circa 1900 the rectangular breccia violet marble top with shaped edge above a scroll and foliate cast bronze frieze drawer above two further long drawers with gilt bronze beaded framing, above a…