dressing - 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.
8 item(s) found:
An Edwardian pine dressing chest, 91 cm wide. 46 cm deep, 159 cm high
Edwardian kauri pine dressing chest with four drawers
A small cedar dressing chest Australian, circa 1880 152 x 92 x 45 cm
An arts & Crafts style light oak dressing chest, 91 cm wide, 47 cm deep, 165 cm high
An Australian cedar dressing chest 176 x 153 x 56 cm
Federation oak dressing chest having a large oval bevelled mirror with ornate carved supports, with three generous drawers and two smaller trinket drawers, replacement Art Nouveau handles, original mellow patina.
Federation silky oak dressing chest with a bevelled mirror, three generous drawers and two small trinket drawers
Oak Edwardian dressing chest, all original Arts & Crafts handles, leaf carving above mirror