Antique rosewood 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 more...

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A good rosewood and cedar press-on-chest, attributed to Andrew…

A good rosewood and cedar press-on-chest, attributed to Andrew Lenehan, Australian circa 1850, 136 cm wide, 59 cm deep, 220 cm high

Louis XVI kingwood, rosewood and tulipwood marquetry commode, c.…

Louis XVI Marquetry Commode with Gilded Brass Handles

Louis XVI kingwood, rosewood and tulipwood marquetry commode, c. 1780, with grey marble top above three short drawers and two long drawers with gilded brass handles, raised on spindle legs with simulated flutes, height 86 cm width 125 cm depth 59 cm.…

A rosewood marble topped secretaire a abbatant, late 19th…

Rosewood Marble Top Secretaire with Fitted Interior and Drawers

A rosewood marble topped secretaire a abbatant, late 19th century, fashioned as a semainer of serpentine profile with cavetto cornice, a faux, drawer fall front opening to a fitted interior in birch, four drawers below, with quarter veneer panels and…

A very fine Louis XIV commode, attributed to master…

Louis XIV Commode by Master Thomas Hache

A very fine Louis XIV commode, attributed to master Cabinetmaker Thomas Hache (1664-1747), the Hache family was a celebrated dynasty of cabinetmakers from the city of Grenoble at the foot of the French Alps. Led by Noel Hache (1630-1675), the Son of a…

Early Colonial cedar cockbeaded 3 drawer chest of drawers on…

Colonial Cedar Chest of Drawers by Lawrence Butler

Early Colonial cedar cockbeaded 3 drawer chest of drawers on French feet with secondary timbers of huon pine & Baltic pine from the workshop of or in the style of Irish political convict & early NSW Cabinetmaker Lawrence Butler. Originally with reeded…