Tiepolo Green with Colorful Butterflies Tall Chest of Drawers
By Porte Italia
Located in Milan, IT
This tall chest of drawers features a dark green patinated finish adorned with a delicate array of colorful butterflies, each detailed with subtle shading to enhance their lifelike a...
Wood
French Louis XV Style Wallnut Parquetry ‘Bombé’ Commode with Ormolu Mounts
Located in Alcoy, Alicante
An exceptional French Louis XV style commode, circa mid-20th century, that perfectly captures the opulent spirit of the Rococo era. This piece is defined by its voluptuous bombé silh...
Bronze
French 19th Century Burled Mahogany Empire Commode
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A spectacular French Empire style petite commode from the 19th century made of bookmatched burl mahogany and decorative ormolu hardware. The commode’s top is dark, nearly black marbl...
Marble, Ormolu
English 19th Century Pine Chest with New Paint & Decoupage
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A 19th century English pine chest of drawers recently updated by a new ebonized effect of black paint, covered with golden decoupage in schools of fish to create a moment of lakehous...
Pine, Paint, Paper
English 19th Century Mahogany Campaign Chest
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
An English 19th century campaign chest in the Regency taste with faux bamboo carving on the trim for an exotic touch as if brought back from one’s travels around the world. Wrapped i...
Mahogany
18th Century Black Painted Rococo Commode Chest of Drawers, Bombe Style
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Italian Rococo bombe shaped chest of drawers from Mid-18th Century. We see this antique Italian small dresser or console placed in a foyer, living room or bedroom. This piece would b...
Pine
Mid 19th Century French Louis XVI Style Black Painted Chest of Drawers, Marble
Located in Fayetteville, AR
This mid nineteenth century French Louis XVI style black painted ash commode or chest features a beveled white marble top with grey veining. The rounded front corners are detailed wi...
Marble, Bronze
Japanese Antique Black Low Board 1860s-1900s / Tansu Drawer Chest Wabisabi
Located in Chōsei District Nagara, JP
This is an old Japanese black low board with drawers. Crafted during the Meiji period (1860s–1900s), it carries the quiet atmosphere of an era moving toward modernization, presenting...
Iron
English 19th Century Pine Faux Bamboo Painted Chest
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
An English 19th century painted pine chest of drawers made in the Regency taste with faux bamboo carving on the trim for an exotic touch. Smooth ivory paint gives a fresh and light u...
Pine, Paint
Architectural Arts & Crafts Oak 5-Drawer Map Cabinet C1910
Located in Big Flats, NY
Antique Architectural Arts & Crafts Oak 5 Drawer Map Cabinet With Brass Hardware C1920 Measures - 40 5/8" x 60 1/8" x 36"
Oak
An 18th Century Green Blue Painted Italian Commode
Located in London, GB
Italy, circa 1780 A fine mid eighteenth century painted Italian commode, the top with tromp l’oeil simulating marble, with two drawers, the corners decorated with trailing floral hu...
Wood
English 18th Century Ebonized Oak Carved Chest
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
An extraordinary 18th century oak chest of drawers, it is of striking color and form to display in any room of the home not limited to clothing storage. The five drawers are finely c...
Brass
French 18th Century Commode
Located in Stockbridge, GA
This French Louis XVI Commode is made of walnut and inlay. The feet are lacquered in black.
Walnut
Japanese Edo Period Apothecary Chest (Tansu), Kaei 1 (1848), Wabi-Sabi
Located in Hitachiomiya-shi, 08
This Japanese apothecary chest (tansu) dates to the first year of Kaei (1848), late Edo period. The date is recorded internally in brush-written ink, providing direct historical evid...
Iron
French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Commode
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
An elegant mahogany & pink marble commode from France, 19th century, in the Louis XVI style that easily fits with Empire and transitional tastes that value noble materials. The t...
Marble, Brass
Antique English Edwardian Painted Dresser With Mahogany Pulls Inset With Mother-
Located in Centennial, CO
A stunning antique circa 1920 English Edwardian mahogany and pine dresser that has been painted in a beautiful pale blue and lightly distressed. The mahogany was left to create a not...
Mother-of-Pearl, Mahogany
Italian 19th Century Inlay Commode
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
An extraordinary Italian walnut commode from the 19th century, Neoclassical in style, decorated with a graphic marquetry of dark/light woods that creates movement and definition over...
Brass
Japanese Antique Low Board 1860s-1900s / Drawer Chest Tansu Wabi-Sabi
Located in Chōsei District Nagara, JP
This is an old Japanese low board with built-in drawer storage. Its low, grounded stance close to the floor and its clean, horizontally extended proportions create a quiet sense of b...
Iron
Pair of Blue Gustavian Chests of Drawers, Gustavian Style, Sweden
Located in Kastrup, DK
A refined and elegant pair of chests of drawers executed in the Gustavian style and painted in nuanced shades of blue with geometric ornamentation. Each chest features a moulded top...
Brass
Japanese Tansu Chest of Drawers, circa 1890
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Traditional Japanese Tansu chest of drawers from the 1890s. Made during the late Meiji era (1868-1912), this piece exudes authenticity and character. It has a warm, timeworn appearan...
Iron
Japanese Antique Large Medicine Chest 1874s / Tansu Drawer Wabi-Sabi
Located in Chōsei District Nagara, JP
This is a large antique Japanese medicine chest (kusuri-tansu). The overwhelming sense of volume and the disciplined repetition of its many drawers elevate it beyond the realm of ord...
Iron
$1,750Sale Price|30% Off
Antique Early American Cherry Three Drawer Silver Chest Side Table Stand 31"
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique Early American silver chest / console / stand. Made of cherry featuring three lockable drawers and long turned legs. Each drawer is hand planed and dovetailed with turned k...
Cherry
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Period Hand Carved Walnut Bow Front Chest
Located in Fayetteville, AR
This late eighteenth century French Louis XV-Louis XVI transition period hand carved walnut commode or chest of drawers is from the region of Provence in Southern France. It features...
Marble
Ralph Lauren Art Deco Style Beauworth Parchment Chest
By Ralph Lauren
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Rare and opulent signed commode, dresser, or chest of drawers designed by Ralph Lauren. The "Beauworth" collection chest features a large beech frame with a serpentine or cupids bow ...
Nickel
Mid-Century Danish Modern Tall Chest of Drawers , Cabinet or Dresser in Walnut
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A handsome clean line chest of drawers with a classic louver front design. It features beautifully grained walnut with 5 deep drawers. Very clean and ready to use condition.
Walnut
Art Nouveau Vertico Cabinet with Flower Marquetry, France, Circa 1905
Located in Berlin, DE
This elegant Art Nouveau vertico cabinet, crafted in France around 1905, is a refined example of early 20th-century decorative artistry. Executed in warm-toned wood, the piece is dis...
Fruitwood, Walnut
Queen Anne Period Chest of Drawers of Walnut and Oak from England, Circa 1710
Located in Austin, TX
A fine English chest of drawers of walnut and oak from the Queen Anne period, circa 1710, featuring a moulded top of beautiful figured burl walnut, above a frieze of two short drawer...
Brass, Metal
19th Century French Louis XV Style Chiffonier or Tall Chest
Located in Winter Park, FL
A fine early 19th century Louis XV style French marquetry chiffonier, or tall gentleman's chest. Expertly crafted with inlaid veneers of walnut and mahogany and various exotic woods....
Marble, Brass
19th Century Biedermeier Chest Of Drawers, Cherrywood, Austria circa 1830
Located in Lichtenberg, AT
Outstanding 19th century Biedermeier chest of drawers from the early period around 1830 in Austria. This completely restored antique three drawer Biedermeier commode impresses with i...
Brass
19th Century French Provincial Louis XV Carved Walnut Bombe Double Commode
Located in Miami, FL
A finely carved late 20th century walnut commode in the French provincial Louis XV style particular to Nimes. The commode of bombe form with carved canted corners flanking four long ...
Wood
Swedish Designer, Chest of Drawers, Oak, Birch, Sweden, 1930s
Located in High Point, NC
A birch and oak chest of drawers with wooden inlays designed and produced in Sweden, c. 1930s. Minor scuffing to feet. Minor tabletop surface cracking from normal wear. Minimal ev...
Birch, Oak
Scandinavian Functionalism / Art Deco, Chest of Drawers in Birch, 1930s–40s
Located in Odense, DK
A refined Scandinavian chest of drawers dating from the 1930s–1940s, designed in the transitional period between Functionalism (Funkis) and Art Deco. The piece is characterized by it...
Birch
French 19th Century Louis Philippe Burl Walnut Tall Chest
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A gorgeous 19th century French walnut chest of drawers–eight drawers to be exact-designed as a classic Louis Philippe commode with spellbinding patterns in the matched wood grain. Th...
Walnut
19th century Gustavian influenced chest of drawers
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
19th century Gustavian influenced chest of drawers circa 1870. Good quality Scandinavian chest of drawers made in pine and re-painted in the early 20th century into it's current blu...
Pine, Paint
19th Century Fruitwood Commode
Located in Charlottesville, VA
A 19th century fruitwood commode with a shaped top over a bombe front fitted with three graduated drawers. The drawer fronts follow the curved case and retain decorative brass pulls ...
Fruitwood
Antique Bachelor's Chest of Drawers, English, Bedroom, Victorian, Circa 1870
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique bachelor's chest of drawers. An English, mahogany four drawer bedroom chest, dating to the Victorian period, circa 1870. A delightful late 19th century example off...
Brass
Late 18th Century English George III Period Bowfront Chest of Drawers
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Late 18th century George III period bowfront chest of drawers, English. 2 short over 3 long drawers. Raised on French bracket feet with a subtle splay. The top with satinwood & kingw...
Wood, Satinwood
French Louis XVI Style Black Wood Commode Chest of Drawers circa 1980
Located in Labrit, Landes
French commode chest of drawers in the Louis XVI style. Wood and brass. This chest of drawers has been refinished with black painting. Elegant brass handles Good vintage condition. ...
Brass
Antique Venetian Style Italian Painted Chest of Drawers Commode
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Antique Venetian Style Italian Painted Chest of Drawers Commode
Wood
French Riviera Chest of Drawers in Rattan, Bamboo and Brass, Italy, 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Wonderful Mid-Century French Riviera style dresser in bamboo and woven rattan, completed with solid brass knobs. This charming organic dresser was hand-made in Italy during the 1970s...
Brass
Pair of Gustavian-Style Black Painted Commodes / Bedside Tables
Located in Kastrup, DK
Pair of chests of drawers in Gustavian style, made of black-painted pine. High-quality architectural design. Beneath the top surfaces are carved dentil mouldings. A pair of drawers w...
Brass
Japanese Tansu Chest of Drawers, circa 1890
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A traditional Japanese Tansu chest of drawers from the 1890s. Made during the late Meiji era (1868-1912), this piece exudes authenticity and character. Possibly an Isho Tansu (wardro...
Iron
Gio Ponti Console Table for Singer, Lacquered Oak & Iron, Italy, 1960s
Gio Ponti Console Table for Singer, Lacquered Oak & Iron, Italy, 1960s A rare 1960s Gio Ponti console table for Singer. Manufactured in Italy in the 1960s, the item is made of l...
Brass, Iron
$2,625Sale Price|30% Off
Antique American Chippendale Serpentine Mahogany Bachelors Chest of Drawers 38"
Located in Dayton, OH
An American Chippendale Bachelor's Chest or Dresser. Made from mahogany with a rectangular serpentine fronted case with four hand dovetailed drawers and solid brass batwing hardware...
Brass
French 19th Century Louis Philippe Marble Top Commode
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
This Louis Philippe commode from France, 19th century, has mesmerizing burled, bookmatched walnut drawer fronts with dense ripples of grain pattern that flow from one to the other fo...
Marble, Brass
Exquisite Half Circle Art Deco Commode With Bakelite Hardware C. 1930
Located in Bernville, PA
This magnificent rare example of a half circle chest of drawers is from the Redlion Furniture Company Circa American 1930’s. It has spectacular book ...
Brass
Mid century Swedish birch inlaid chest of drawers
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Art deco inspired Scandinavian chest of drawers circa 1950. Fitted with 3 graduating, top drawer opens on the key with the bottom drawers fitted with coppered handles. Delicate flor...
Birch
Pair of painted 19th century Swedish chest of drawers
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Pair of painted 19th century Swedish chest of drawers circa 1890. Good quality pair of commodes which are painted in a light grey scheme. Slightly wider than the normal, rectangula...
Pine, Paint
19th Century Marble Top Louis Philippe Chest
Located in Charlottesville, VA
A Louis Philippe chest with a rectangular case fitted with three drawers, topped with a dark marble surface and molded edge detail. The drawer fronts show strongly figured veneer pan...
Marble
Antique French Chest of Drawers Commode Serpentine Carved Oak Louis XV c.1930s
Located in Tyler, TX
EXQUISITE Antique French Country Oak Louis XV Style Serpentine Front Chest of Drawers or Commode~~1930s This is a SUPERB example of an antique French Country oak Louis XV style ches...
Oak
Swedish Gustavian-Style Blue Chest of Drawers with Faux Marble Top
Located in Atlanta, GA
A refined Swedish Gustavian-style chest of drawers. Crafted in pine, this piece is painted in a soft blue tone, a color popular beginning with late 19th-century Scandinavian interpre...
Wood
Late 20th Century Stacking Luggage-Form Leather & Woven Rattan Side Table Chest
Located in Germantown, MD
A Late 20th Century Stacking Luggage-Form Leather and woven rattan Chest Side Table featuring 3 drawers with leather pulls and William and Mary Style wooden legs. Measure 25.5" in wi...
Leather, Wood, Rattan
French Louis XV-Style Black Lacquered Chest of Drawers with brass Mounts
Located in Meulebeke, BE
France / 1950 / Chest of Drawers / wood, copper / Louis XV / Antique A sophisticated French Louis XV-style tall chest of drawers, crafted circa 1950. This refined piece is executed ...
Copper
Art Deco Streamline Moderne Commode Attributed D. Deskey For Widdicomb C.1935
By Donald Deskey, Widdicomb Furniture Co.
Located in Bernville, PA
A magnificent example of a rare four drawer commode attributed to the esteemed Donald Deskey for Widdicomb Furniture Company circa 1935. Beautiful Streamline Moderne design finished in black lacquer and curly burl veneer. The original chrome and solid brass hardware has been polished to create a unique Masion Jansen style effect. Professionally restored and ready for installation. A stunning focal point for an important room. The hardware has been professionally hand polished. This Streamline Design was also made famous by Zephyr clock...
Brass, Chrome
Japanese Antique Edo period Drawer Chest 1830s-1844s / Sideboard Tansu Wabisabi
Located in Chōsei District Nagara, JP
This is a very old Japanese chest of drawers. On the inner side of one drawer, a clearly handwritten inscription reading “天保(Tenpō)” remains intact, indicating that the piece was cra...
Iron
Early 20th Century, Danish Modern Oak Bureau / Chest with Seashell Handles
Located in Odense, DK
A finely crafted Danish bureau dating from the early 20th century, combining functional storage with refined decorative detailing. Executed in oak with a warm, time-worn patina, the ...
Oak
19th Century Louis XVI Style Demilune Commode with Marble Top
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
Elegant 19th century Louis XVI style demilune commode, finely crafted in marquetry and adorned with a richly colored breccia marble top. This refined piece beautifully reflects the n...
Breccia Marble, Bronze
18th Century German Biedermeier Commode
Located in Nashville, TN
Elevate your space with this exquisite 19th-century Austrian Biedermeier commode, crafted from rich crotch walnut that has aged to a stunning golden hue. The traditional elegance of ...
Walnut
$2,073Sale Price|20% Off
Antique George III Quality Figured Mahogany Bow Fronted Chest of 5 Drawers
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique George III quality figured mahogany bow fronted chest of 5 drawers having a quality figured mahogany bow fronted shaped top with a moulded edge above 2 short and 3 long figur...
Other
Swedish Grace Commode in Solid Elm with Flamed Birch, 1930s Design
Located in Portland, OR
A Swedish grace or Danish art deco commode in solid elm trimmed with flamed birch. Intarsia decorates the lowest of the three drawers. Patinated brass pulls. Drawers are deep and sli...
Birch, Elm
Shopping for a commode or a chest of drawers?
Commode is the French term for a low chest of drawers, but it is also sometimes used to denote any case piece with a particularly intricate design. The commode dates to circa 1700 France, where it was used as an alternative to a taller cabinet piece so as to not obscure paneled, mirrored or tapestried walls. Coffers, or chests, which were large wooden boxes with hinged lids and sometimes stood on ball feet, preceded chests of drawers, a fashionable cabinet furnishing that garnered acclaim for its obvious storage potential and versatility. The term commode was also used to refer to a piece of bedroom furniture — a washstand or nightstand that contained a chamber pot.
As time passed, French and British furniture makers led the way in the production of chests of drawers, and features like the integration of bronze and ornamental pulls became commonplace. Antique French commodes in the Louis XV style were sometimes crafted in mahogany or walnut, while an Italian marble top added a sophisticated decorative flourish. This specific type of case piece grew in popularity in the years that followed.
So, what makes a chest of drawers different from a common dresser? Dressers are short, and chests of drawers are overall taller pieces of furniture that typically do not have room on the top for a mirror as most dressers do. Tallboys and highboys are variations of the dresser form. Some chests of drawers have one column of four to six long drawers or three long drawers in their bottom section that are topped by a cluster of small side-by-side drawers on the top. To further complicate things, we sometimes refer to particularly short chests of drawers as nightstands.
Even though chests of drawers are commonly thought of as bedroom furniture to store clothing, these are adaptable pieces. A chest of drawers can house important documents — think of your walnut Art Deco commode as an upgrade to your filing cabinet. Nestle your chest near your home’s front door to store coats and other outerwear, while the top can be a place to drop your handbag. Add some flair to your kitchen, where this lovable case piece can hold pots, pans and even cookbooks.
When shopping for the right chest of drawers for your home, there are a few key things to consider: What will you be storing in it? How big a chest will you need?
Speaking of size, don’t dream too big. If your space is on the smaller side, a more streamlined vintage mid-century modern chest of drawers, perhaps one designed by Paul McCobb or T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, may best suit your needs.
At 1stDibs, we make it easy to add style and storage to your home. Browse our collection of antique and vintage commodes and chests of drawers today.
