19th Century French Faux Bamboo Chest with Black Marble Top
Located in Richmond, VA
Gorgeous full sized 19th century French faux bamboo 4 drawer chest with original black marble top. Complimentary shipping to- Richmond, Va Charleston, Sc Atlanta, Ga Washingt...
Marble
Antique Black Painted Victorian Commode/ Chest of Drawers with Marble Top
Located in Wichita, KS
Antique black painted Victorian commode/ chest of drawers with marble top.
Carrara Marble, Brass
Empire Chest of Drawers Cherry Wood with Black Colones and Black Marble Top
Located in Schöfflisdorf, CH
EMPIRE chest of drawers cherry wood with black colones and black marble top
Belgian Black Marble
Vintage Regency Marble Top Marquetry Bombe Chest
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning vintage Marquetry Bombe chest. Beautiful inlay detail and black marble top.
Belgian Black Marble
Painted French Style Commode Chest of Drawers with Black Marble Top
Located in Hopewell, NJ
The top is figured black marble with white veining.
Marble
Antique French Empire Walnut Chest of Drawers W/ Black Marble Top
Located in Astoria, NY
Expertly handcrafted from walnut, it boasts a naturally aged patina that highlights its timeless elegance. Topped with a sleek black marble slab, this commode exudes sophistication.
Marble
19th Century French Painted Wood Side Chest with Black Marble Top & Faux Front
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French painted wood side chest with marble top from the 19th century. This smaller-sized commode from France has a black marble top, with case below which houses a single recessed-...
Marble
Fine Paint Decorated Marble Top Bombe Chest
Located in Bridgeport, CT
With heavy brass ring pulls and a lovely black marble top. Measures : Width. 47 1/2", Depth 21", Height. 33 1/2" Condition: There are some age-related minor marks and scratches to...
Marble, Brass
Exceptional Bombé Marquetry Chest With Belgian Marble Top
Located in Bridgeport, CT
An extravagant and large three drawer chest with extensive floral marquetry decoration, heavy bronze mounts, pulls and escutcheons (False), Belgian marble top with fine color and exc...
Belgian Black Marble, Bronze
Vintage French Piano Black Chest with a Marble Top and Brass Details
Located in Dallas, TX
This Vintage French Piano Black Chest with a Marble Top and Brass Details exudes elegance and sophistication with its rich black color and intricate brass details.
Wood
Fine 19th Century Louis Philippe Walnut Veneered Marble Top Chest
By Louis Philippe
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A exceptional Chest with fine traditional French form and Belgian Marble top with great patterning and color. Standing on four feet, including front rounded feet and back squared fe...
Belgian Black Marble, Brass
19th Century French Louis Phillipe Walnut Marble Top Commode Chest of Drawers
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Constructed of four drawers, raised on typical Louis Phillipe bracket feet, and topped with the original black Belgian marble. As with most of these commodes, there are age cracks on...
Belgian Black Marble
Empire Walnut & Black Marble Top Commode, circa 1815
Located in Astoria, NY
French Empire Walnut and Black Marble Top Commode, circa 1815. 35" H x 48" W x 23" D. Provenance: James Grafstein Antiques, New York, 20 October 1984. From a Forest Hills Gardens E...
Marble
Fine Empire Four Drawer Chest In Flame Mahogany With Gris Marble Top
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A fine diminutive Empire Chest dating to the 1st half of the 19th Century in original condition. The Chest with book matched flame mahogany drawer fronts with great color, refined ro...
Belgian Black Marble, Brass
French Empire Mahogany Commode with Black Marble Top
Located in WEST PALM BEACH, FL
This is an elegant French Empire-style commode crafted in richly figured flame mahogany, showcasing the bold architectural lines and restrained classical elegance characteristic of t...
Marble, Brass
19th Century Post Civil War American Rosewood Chest of Drawers w/ Marble Top
Located in INTERLAKEN, NY
A beautifully-carved & highly decorated Victorian chest of drawers in prized rosewood with original statuary marble. Features original and complete carved rosewood appliqués and knob...
Marble
19th Century French Empire Marble Top Carved Walnut Commode Chest of Drawers
Located in Dallas, TX
The cabinet features three drawers across the front with the original bronze pulls and key holes escutcheons, and a fourth additional drawer under the marble top. The surface is dres...
Marble, Bronze
19th c. Empire Walnut Commode with Black Marble Top
Located in Atlanta, GA
A striking example of French Empire craftsmanship, this 19th-century walnut commode combines bold architectural lines with the warmth and richness of beautifully figured walnut. The ...
Marble, Brass
Early 20th Century French Empire Marble Top Carved Walnut Four-Drawer Chest
Located in Dallas, TX
The surface is dressed with the original black marble top. This Empire chest is in excellent condition commensurate with age and use, and adorns a rich walnut patina.
Marble, Bronze
Unique Three Drawer Commode with Black Marble Top
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This three drawer commode is an absolutely unique piece - something Alice, no doubt, carried back from her visit to Wonderland! The cantaloupe-like finish is fun, precarious and soph...
Marble
French 19th Century Burl Walnut Nightstand with Black Marble Top
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Fabulous nightstand with a black marble top. This cabinet is a very versatile piece that can be used as a side table in a living room, foyer or next to a bed in any formal or informa...
Belgian Black Marble
French Neoclassical Commode w/Orig. Black Marble Top & Fabulous Hardware
Located in Atlanta, GA
This antique chest from France features a rectangular-shaped black marble top, which slightly overhangs the case which houses four drawers (upper drawer is disguised within the top f...
Marble
Fine Charles X French Semainier Circa 1830 With Black Marble Top
Located in Bridgeport, CT
The semainier is surmounted by a black marble top with round corners. The chest includes 7 lockable drawers each adorned with ornate well cast brass pulls and classic keyhole escutch...
Belgian Black Marble, Brass
French Empire Commode w/Black Marble Top & Stunning Brass Hardware
Located in Atlanta, GA
The finish is a blue color with grey mixed within it and black columns, which work well within the black marble top.
Marble
Italian Venetian Commode, Black Marble Top, Hand-Carved, Circa 1850
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Venetian (19th Century) stripped pine chest with three drawers, each having a keyhole and two round (modern) handles resting on two claw carved front legs with a black marble...
Marble
French Side Chest w/Orig. Black Marble & Brass Accents, 19th C.
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French three-drawer side chest with original marble top from the 19th century.
Wood
French 19th C. Raised Two-Drawer Commode w/Charcoal Black Marble Top
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French wooden two-drawer chest with marble top from the 19th century. This antique chest from France has a rectangular shaped marble top, over case which houses two drawers, each f...
Marble
Slate Gray French Provincial-Style Dresser with Black Marble Top by Widdicomb
By Widdicomb Furniture Co.
Located in San Francisco, CA
On offer is a marble-topped chest of drawers by the John Widdicomb Company.
Belgian Black Marble
Antique French Neoclassical Style Commode w/Black Marble Top & Scraped Finish
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French two-drawer commode, with shallow break-front design and marble top, from the early 20th century. This antique chest from France has a black marble top which rests atop a woo...
Marble
19th Century Painted French Empire Chest of Drawers with black Stone Top
Located in Wichita, KS
Period antique French Empire painted chest of drawers with beautiful black stone top. Beautiful decorative lion brass hardware and working key. Early and all original. Footed legs in...
Marble, Brass
French 19th C. Two-Door Buffet Cabinet w/Nice Black Marble Top
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French wooden buffet console, with really nice marble top, from the 19th century. This antique chest from France (just over four feet in length) features a rectangular-shaped black...
Marble
Modern Black Sideboard with Marble Top and Brass, Copper, Bronze, Gold
By Renats Kotlevs
Located in Riga, LV
Made from ash veneer with steel legs, copper, bronze and brass drawers and unique marble top. It is wonderfully smooth to the touch and looks fantastic. Sideboard Soleil is beautiful...
Marble, Brass, Bronze, Copper
Louis XVI Mahogany Chest, Antique French, Gray Marble, Circa 1820
Located in Austin, TX
This elegant commode features three dovetailed drawers with finely cast lost wax hardware and an intact, black, veined marble top. This chest is in very nice antique condition with ...
Marble, Brass
French 1930s Empire Style Walnut Commode with Grey Marble Top and Black Columns
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French Empire style walnut commode from the early 20th century, with grey veined marble top four drawers and black columns. Created in France during the second quarter of the 20th ...
Marble, Bronze, Brass
19th Century French Empire Provincial Ash Commode with Black Marble Top
Located in Atlanta, GA
19th Century French Empire Provincial Ash Commode with Black Marble Top
Ash
French Empire Period Commode w/Black Marble Top, Revival Accents, & Paw Feet
Located in Atlanta, GA
This antique commode from France features a rectangular-shaped black marble top, above a case which houses three drawers and is designed with clean lines and column-style side posts ...
Wood
Early 20th Century French Chinoiserie Decorated Marble Top Commode
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
A beautiful early 20th Century French marble top commode. Circa 1920. Decorated in the Chinoiserie manner with ormolu fittings. In very good overall condition.
Lacquer
Pair of Italian Marble Top Ormolu Bombay Commodes, Circa 1870
Located in Charleston, SC
Pair of Italian zebra wood three-drawer marble top Bombay commodes with inlaid fruit wood front drawers and side panels, original ormolu mounts, escutcheons, and decorative pulls, te...
A Pair of Danish Empire Style Mahogany 3-Drawer Marble Topped Bow-Front
Located in San Francisco, CA
A handsome pair of Danish empire style mahogany 3-drawer marble-topped bow-front chests with brass inlay and bronze mounts; each with thick Napoleon machete mable top above a bowed c...
Chest of Drawers with Wood Inlay and Black Marble Top, 18th Century Swiss
Located in El Monte, CA
The chest features a bombe shape and a stunning black marble top.
Marble
Louis XV Style Chest in Black with Fine Brass Fittings and a Marble Top
Located in Crowthorne, Surrey
A Louis XV style chestwith original brass details and handles in birch wood with a Black fine painted finish with Fine Brass Fittings and a Marble Top. Width: 73cm / 28.7" Depth: 3...
Wood
Carrara Marble-Top Painted Chest
Located in Wichita, KS
Carrara marble-top painted chest with new brass hardware. Slight discoloration in marble.
Carrara Marble
Marble Top Chest of Drawers with Brass Accent
Located in Greenwich, CT
Marble top chest of drawers with brass accent.
Marble, Brass
Unavailable
H 35 in W 51 in D 22.5 in
French Empire Period Flame Grain Mahogany Commode Chest with Black Marble Top
Located in Wells, ME
This handsome chest retains its original separate black marble top, and the four drawers (the top drawer is part of the upper frieze and has no projecting handles, but as it is proud...
Marble, Ormolu
Unavailable
H 37.41 in W 51.97 in D 22.05 in
Large Antique French Bombe Chest Drawers, Serpentine, Marble Top
Located in Lingfield, West Sussex
Here we have a lovely french chest of drawers with Marble top. Very unusual decoration, depicting a lovely scene. Bombe shape on splayed legs. Dimensions- 132cm wide, 95cm tall, 5...
Louis Philippe Commode with black marble top
Located in Denver, CO
This is a fine Louis Philippe commode with 3 drawers below. The lack of hardware puts the focus on the wood and marble top.
Marble
Unavailable
H 36.62 in W 48.43 in D 21.66 in
Bleached 19th Century Commode Chest of Drawers with Black Marble Top, circa 1880
Located in Salisbury, GB
Bleached 19th century commode chest of drawers with black marble top.
Wood
Charles X Black Walnut Commode with Marble Top
Located in Hudson, NY
Charles X black walnut four-drawer commode with marble top in soft purple and white tones. Original brass pulls on three drawers with keys. First, top drawer has no hardware.
Marble
19 th Walnut Nightstand with Black Marble Top
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Walnut venner nightstand with original marbe top and additional original crown.
Marble
Beautiful Pair of Marble Topped Semainiers
Located in Woodbury, CT
A pair of semainiers in the Louis XV style with breche d'alep marble tops over the seven drawers. Geometric parquetry inlays of contrasting mahogany on front and sides. Gilt bronze...
Marble, Ormolu
Unavailable
H 36.5 in W 37.5 in D 19 in
Painted White Directoire Style Commode with Black Marble Top, France, circa 1930
Located in New York, NY
Hand-painted directoire style commode with black marble top, one frieze drawer and two drawers flanked by pilasters on block feet. France, circa 1930. Overall Dimensions: 37.5” W, 1...
Marble
Unavailable
H 36.62 in W 51.19 in D 24.41 in
19th Century Italian Empire Style Chest of Drawers, 1800-1820
Located in Arezzo, IT
Italian chest of drawers of the 19th century (1800-1820) in Empire style, with folding drawer in walnut wood and briarwood, with black marble top.
Black Marble-Topped Empire Style Chest
Located in Austin, TX
A charming Empire style chest with black marble top. This French antique piece is made of mahogany and features an intact marble slab, three dovetailed drawers, bronze hardware, and ...
Marble, Bronze
Louis XVI Style French Chest with Black Marble Top
Located in Austin, TX
Antique French Louis XVI style chest with an ebonized, lustrous French polish finish and black marble top.
Marble, Brass
19th Century French Directoire Black Lacquered Chest with Marble Top
Located in Dallas, TX
This item is a gorgeous 19th Century French Directoire Black Lacquered Chest with Marble. The chest showcases a French style with a black color and a marble top, adding elegance and ...
Marble
19th Century French Empire Chest with Black Marble Top
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is a beautiful 19th Century French Empire chest with a black marble top. The French Empire style is characterized by its elegance and grandeur, often incorporating classical ele...
Marble
Swedish Gustavian Three Drawer Chest with Black Marble Top
Located in Troy, MI
Circa 1800 Swedish chest has three drawers with brass hardware and a black marble top with gray/white veins.
Marble, Brass
Antique Walnut Marble Topped Chest/Commode
Located in Benington, Herts
An exceptional quality black marble topped French Louis Philippe figured walnut five-drawer Commode.
Belgian Black Marble
Sold
H 33.47 in W 39.38 in D 20.87 in
Loire Chest in Black Lacquered Wood Nickel Details and Marble Top
Located in Paris, FR
Chest Loire in black lacquered pine wood, nickel details finish and black marble top.
Marble, Nickel
Sold
H 31.5 in W 41.25 in D 19.75 in
Ebonised Eight-Drawer Louis XVI Style Chest with Black Marble Top
Located in Troy, MI
Circa 1900 French chest of eight drawers in classic Louis XVI style has a new professionally applied ebonised finish, black marble top, brass hardware, foot caps and decorative moun...
Marble, Brass
French Directoire Marble-Top Chest of Drawers
Located in Austin, TX
French antique, Directoire style chest of drawers of ebonized mahogany with a lustrous French polish finish, Carrara marble top and brass trim on all three sides. Three dovetailed dr...
Carrara Marble, Brass, Bronze
Sold
H 28.25 in W 34.75 in D 21 in
2 Modern Black Marble Top Bedside Chests 4 Drawer Commode Nightstands Dressers
Located in Dayton, OH
A neat pair of contemporary chests. Finished in black with 4 oak dovetailed drawers and a white marble top.
Marble
Louis Philippe Book Matched Burl Walnut Chest with Black Marble Top
Located in Fayetteville, AR
Louis Philippe book matched burl walnut commode with five drawers and black marble top. The hidden fifth drawer behind the front molding piece at the bottom of the chest was origina...
Marble
Neoclassical Style Gray/ Black Marble Top Five Drawer Chest of Drawers
Located in Houston, TX
Lovely neoclassical five drawer mahogany chest of drawers / tall dresser with a grey marble top and brass hardware.
Marble
Sold
H 35.5 in W 44.5 in D 22 in
Moviestar Hollywood Regency Black Chest of Drawers with Gorgeous Marble Top
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Show stopper super glamorous chest of drawers having black body, chunky brass hardware and decoration including feet, and sensationally yummy cream, black and pink lively marble top.
Marble, Brass
Italian chest of drawers with black marble top from the 1950s
Located in Vigevano, PV
chest of drawers with Italian black marble top from the 1950s, Rare and beautiful, this piece is in original condition, no intervention has been done.
Marble
Sold
H 34.26 in W 51.19 in D 24.81 in
Black Ebonized French Empire Chest of Drawers Silver-Plated Fitting, Marble Top
Located in Vienna, AT
Antique ebonized Empire chest of drawers with silver-plated bronze fittings and original black / gray marble top.
Marble, Silver, Bronze
French Directoire Mahogany Marble-Top Commode, Silver Chest
Located in Dallas, TX
French Directoire mahogany marble-top commode, silver chest combines the tailored architecture of antiquity with the sheer natural beauty of exotic imported mahogany and purity of Ca...
Carrara Marble, Brass
Sold
H 38 in W 48 in D 22.5 in
French Louis Philippe Style Black Marble Top Four Drawer Chest of Drawers
By Louis Philippe
Located in Houston, TX
Wonderful 19th century four drawer walnut chest of drawers with a black marble top in the style of Louis Philippe.
Marble
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.
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