Manuscript Chest
Vintage Burmese Kammavaca Manuscript Chest
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Vintage Burmese Kammavaca Manuscript Chest. A rectangular wooden hinged lid box painted red with
Category
Late 20th Century Burmese Other Furniture
Materials
Gold Leaf
Antique Burmese Sadaik Manuscript Chest.
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Burmese manuscript chests are with an undecorated lid. The decoration usually depicts scenes from the
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Burmese Anglo-Indian Furniture
Materials
Gold Leaf
19th Century Buddhist Manuscript Trunk
Located in New York, NY
A 19th century Buddhist Manuscript Chest - Trunk. Antique Burmese Sadaik Chest of the Mandalay
Category
Antique 1890s Thai Trunks and Luggage
Materials
Teak
Antique Burmese Set of Sixteen Double-Sided Kammavaca or Buddhist Manuscripts
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Theravadin Vinaya, that relates to the traditional ceremonies of monks. Together with a manuscript chest of
Category
Antique 1890s Scholar's Objects
Materials
Paper
H 5.25 in W 26.75 in D 8.25 in
19th Century, Rattanakosin, Antique Thai Manuscript Wooden Chest
Located in Sampantawong, TH
Thai manuscript wooden chest with gilded gold.
Age: Thailand, Rattanakosin Period, 19th Century
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Antique 19th Century Thai Antiquities
Materials
Wood
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Manuscript Trunk
Located in New York, NY
Monastery Manuscript Trunk
Category
Early 20th Century Burmese Blanket Chests
Materials
Pine
Burmese Manuscript Chest
Located in Chicago, IL
This gorgeous manuscript chest is from Burma and is made from gilt wood and beautiful glass inlay.
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Blanket Chests
Materials
Giltwood
Lanna Thai Manuscript Chest
Located in Chicago, IL
This elegant Lanna Thai manuscript chest features red lacquer with gold motifs. It was made in the
Category
Early 20th Century Thai Scholar's Objects
Materials
Teak, Lacquer
Burmese Manuscript Chest with Red Cinnabar Lacquer and Gold Leaf
Located in Chicago, IL
This impressive manuscript chest is from Burma and made from teakwood, red cinnabar lacquer, and
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Antique Mid-19th Century Burmese Blanket Chests
Materials
Gold Leaf
Teak Red Lacquer and Gold Leaf Manuscript Chest
Located in Tulsa, OK
19th century teak Burmese manuscript chest. Made from teak and lacquered red with gold leaf
Category
Antique 19th Century Southeast Asian Primitive Commodes and Chests of Dr...
Materials
Gold Leaf
A Burmese Carved and Gilt Buddhist Manuscript Chest (Sadaik)
Located in Austin, TX
A fine and rare Burmese temple chest, known as a sadaik, made of heavy teak, with carved and molded
Category
Antique 19th Century Burmese Blanket Chests
Materials
Teak
Burmese Shwe Zawa Painted Panel, C. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
This fantastic gilt painted panel was originally the front of a 19th-century Burmese manuscript
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Burmese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood
Crucifix ‘Corpus Christi’ Neogothic Frame, 20th Century, Limoges
By Limoges
Located in Madrid, ES
these figures were made to be placed in processional crosses, tops of illuminated manuscripts, chests
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier French Medieval Religious Items
Materials
Enamel, Other, Copper
Crucified Christ ‘Corpus Christi’ Copper, Enamel, Jet Limoges, 12th-13th Century
By Limoges
Located in Madrid, ES
processional crosses, tops of illuminated manuscripts, chests, etc., and that, frequently, only the Christ has
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier French Medieval Religious Items
Materials
Enamel, Other, Copper
H 9.26 in W 6.89 in D 0.99 in
Two Panels from a Buddhist Sadaik Manuscript Chest, Burma, Circa 1790-1850
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
Two panels from a Buddhist sadaik manuscript chest. Teak coated with black thitsi lacquer onto
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Antique Late 18th Century Burmese Chinese Export Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Teak
H 11 in W 14.25 in D 0.75 in
Burmese Kammavaca Giltwood Box, Stand, and Manuscript, 18th/19th Century
Located in Austin, TX
18th or early 19th century, Burma.
The manuscript chest is heavily rococo influenced, speaking to the
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Burmese Rococo Lacquer
Materials
Gold Leaf, Foil, Silver Leaf
Ming Dynasty Sancai Glaze Dignitary Tomb Attendants 16th Century
Located in Dallas, TX
sancai glaze wearing robes and carrying a chest and manuscripts. Attendees have detachable and
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Chinese Ming Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Manuscript Trunk
Located in New York, NY
manuscripts. Removable top lid (no hinges)
Category
Antique 19th Century Burmese Blanket Chests
Materials
Teak, Mirror
Rare George-III Period, Satinwood Medicine Chest
Located in Cambridge, GB
manuscript label inscribed 'This medicine chest presented me by my good aunt Mrs Bahiel on the 17th day of
Category
Antique Early 1800s English Cabinets
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By Örsjö Industri AB
Located in Glendale, CA
'Plissé White Edition' pleated textile table lamp by Folkform for Örsjö.
This unique table lamp was awarded “Lighting of the Year 2022” by Residence Magazine Sweden, who called it “...
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21st Century and Contemporary Swedish Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Textile
Tibetan Golden Wheel Trunk, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Made of humble pine, this late 19th-century Tibetan trunk once sparkled with vibrant color and shimmering gilt embellishment. A century of use has softened its original brilliance, t...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Tibetan Tibetan Blanket Chests
Materials
Pine
Tibetan Water Dragon Kyungbur Trunk
Located in Chicago, IL
This Tibetan trunk from the early 20th century is lavishly decorated from end to end in with a bold palette of red, orange, green and blue. A highly decorated trunk such as this was ...
Category
Early 20th Century Tibetan Tibetan Blanket Chests
Materials
Pine
19th Century Chinese Pagoda Cabinet
Located in Houston, TX
A stunning and rare 19th Century English Chinese pagoda cabinets. This highly stylized hand carved mahogany cabinets features, glass shelving, pagoda gabled roofs, classic Chippendal...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Chinese Chippendale Vitrines
Materials
Glass, Mahogany
Tibetan Flaming Jewel Trunk, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
A lavishly decorated trunk such as this likely originated in a Tibetan monastery, where it was used to store textiles, clothing, altar objects or other precious objects. Often commis...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Tibetan Tibetan Blanket Chests
Materials
Pine
Antique Chinese Carved Canopy Bed with Alcove
Located in Buffalo, NY
Mid to late 19th century, elaborately carved, antique Chinese bed Chambers was used to greet visitors and usually was furnished with two chairs and a center table: from which tea, wi...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Chinese Beds and Bed Frames
Materials
Lacquer, Wood
Mogens Koch for Rud Radmussen Modular Library in Mahogany
By Mogens Koch, Rud Rasmussen
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Mogens Koch for Rud Rasmussen, modular book case or library, mahogany, Denmark, design 1928
Intriguing and substantial modular library by Danish designer Mogens Koch. This piece is ...
Category
Vintage 1920s Danish Scandinavian Modern Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
Monumental Antique Trunk Giant Blanket Chest
Located in Somis, CA
This is an extremely heavy, substantial, over scale trunk from Shan Xi province, China's ancient frontier. The completely solid wood trunk has a thick top that displays beautiful pat...
Category
Antique 19th Century Chinese Blanket Chests
Materials
Iron
Japanese Buddhist Teaching Painting
Located in Greenwich, CT
Japanese Buddhist teaching painting, set of four paintings with 24 Buddhist stories with Japanese written characters in each story on one screen. Provenance: Purchased from Christie'...
Category
Antique 1820s Japanese Edo Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Chinese Woven Top Canopy Bed, c. 1800
Located in Chicago, IL
A Chinese canopy bed was typically part of a bride's dowry or a gift to a courtesan. It grew to be an important household status symbol, and the subject of rivalry among wives and co...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Chinese Qing Daybeds
Materials
Rattan, Elm
17th Century Japanese Export Lacquer Cabinet with Depiction the Dutch Tradepost
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A highly important Japanese export lacquer cabinet with depiction of the Dutch East India Company tradepost Deshima and the annual Dutch delegation on its way to the Shogun in Edo
...
Category
Antique 17th Century Japanese Edo Lacquer
Materials
Copper, Gold
H 34.65 in W 39.57 in D 21.26 in
19th Century Zanzibar Wood & Brass Studded Coffee Cocktail Table Trunk Chest
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Lovely rare Zanzibar trunk, 19th century. Brass studded decorations all-over with brass clad panels. Three bottom drawers and top opens for storage as well. These were used in Kenya ...
Category
Vintage 1920s Zanzibari Islamic Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Brass
H 25 in W 42.5 in D 18 in
19th Century Italian Carved Inlaid Walnut Burl Queen Bed
Located in Milano, MI
Italian carved walnut double bed dating back to the first half of 19th century, in good condition, with a great original patina. The elegant and unique bed frame is walnut veneer and...
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Antique Mid-19th Century Neoclassical Beds and Bed Frames
Materials
Walnut, Burl
16th-Century Indo-Portuguese Colonial Mother-of-pearl Gujarat Casket
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An exceptional Indo-Portuguese colonial mother-of-pearl veneered casket with silver mounts
India, Gujarat, 2nd half of the 16th century, the silver mounts Goa or probably Lisbon
...
Category
Antique 16th Century Indian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Silver
An Imperial Japanese Meiji Shibayama Tea Cabinet by The Tokugawa Samurai Clan
Located in New York, NY
An Imperial Japanese Meiji Shibayama Tea Ceremony Cabinet by The Tokugawa Samurai Clan.
This extraordinary Meiji-period shibayama cabinet, attributed to the Tokugawa samurai clan, s...
Category
Antique 19th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Wood, Lacquer
H 84 in W 56 in D 20 in
19th Century Buddhist Prayer Box
Located in New York, NY
19th century Buddhist prayer box. A Thai Buddhist manuscript box of the 19th century or earlier. This type of box was used to to store Buddhist texts, known as Buddhavacana, Sutras, ...
Category
Antique 19th Century Thai Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
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Manuscript Chest For Sale on 1stDibs
With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the manuscript chest you’re looking for. Frequently made of wood, metal and hardwood, every manuscript chest was constructed with great care. Whether you’re looking for an older or newer manuscript chest, there are earlier versions available from the 18th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 20th Century. A manuscript chest, designed in the mid-century modern or Rococo style, is generally a popular piece of furniture. Many designers have produced at least one well-made manuscript chest over the years, but those crafted by De Coene Frères and Gordon Bunshaft are often thought to be among the most beautiful.
How Much is a Manuscript Chest?
A manuscript chest can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price 1stDibs is $3,500, while the lowest priced sells for $1,200 and the highest can go for as much as $23,570.