pair of Italian late 18th century Venetian st. Walnut and Bronze commodes
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A handsome pair of Italian late 18th century Venetian st. Walnut and patinated Bronze commodes. Each commode is raised on cabriole legs with a scalloped frieze. The two wide drawers ...
Bronze
Venetian Hand Painted and Gilt Figural Pagoda Two Drawer Commode, Circa 1780
Located in Charleston, SC
Venetian hand painted and gilt figural pagoda two-drawer commode with scalloped edge top, gilt carved shell form handles, and resting on a scalloped edge floral skirt with the origin...
Wood, Giltwood, Paint
Pair of Venetian Foliage Painted One Drawer Cabinet Commodes Tapered Legs C 1780
Located in Charleston, SC
Pair of Venetian Neoclassical foliage painted one drawer commodes with original brass pulls, flanking lower cabinets with locking mechanisms, and resting on the original tapered pain...
Brass
Early 20th C. Venetian Hand-Painted and Decorated Partial Gilt Commode w/ Glass
Located in Germantown, MD
Absolutely gorgeous Louis XV style Venetian Four Sided Hand-Painted and Decorated Partial Gilt Commode with protective Glass Top. Each of the four side painting depicts a different ...
Hardwood, Paint
18th-century Italian cherrywood chest of drawers from Venice
Located in Atlanta, GA
Minimalist in ornamentation but rich in character, this chest exemplifies the Venetian taste for functional beauty and balanced proportions.
Cherry
Italy Venezia 18th Century Baroque Olive and Briar Wood Chest of Drawers
Located in Brescia, IT
Italy 18th century Venetian briar root wood chest of drawings. Inlay in olive wood.
Olive, Walnut
Venetian Renaissance Jewelry Chest
Located in Greenwich, CT
Rare Venetian 16th century Italian traveling jewelry chest profusely decorated in Arabesque black and gilt decoration featuring rare specimen stone drawer fronts in a Palladian archi...
Wood
Rare 17th-Century Venetian Carved and Pyrographed Chest
Located in MARSEILLE, FR
Rare 17th-century Italian chest, finely carved and decorated with delicate pyrographed scenes, characteristic of the decorative tradition of the Venetian region.
Wood
Venetian Antique Pair Reverse Serpentine Side Chests w/Intricate Marquetry
Located in Atlanta, GA
A handsome Venetian pair of petite side chests, with reverse-serpentine design and intricate inlay marquetry, from the early 20th century.
Wood
$1,925Sale Price|30% Off
Karges French Provincial Hand Painted Venetian Bombe Commode Nightstand Chest
By Karges Furniture
Located in Dayton, OH
This mid-century Karges Venetian-style bombe chest is a masterclass in French Provincial cabinetry, showcasing a heavily contoured swelling silhouette supported by short, elegant cab...
Hardwood, Paint
18th Century Hand-Painted Venetian Style Chalky White Arsenale Chest
By Porte Italia
Located in Ronchi dei Legionari, IT
From our Hand-Painted Furniture Collection, we are pleased to introduce you to our Chalky White Arsenale Chest with Raised Gesso Tulips on the sides. An Entirely Hand-Painted Venet...
Wood
Pair of Italian Lacca Povera Comodini Side Tables, Early 19th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
An exceptional pair of Lacca Povera Venetian style small commodes or chest of drawers.
Wood
$273Sale Price|20% Off
MIRRORED CHEST OF DRAWERS IN THE ITALIAN VENETiAN STYLE 81CM TALL
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this full-sized Venetian glass mirrored chest of drawers with bevelled edges Please note: The delivery fee ...
Mirror, Wood
18th Century Hand Painted Venetian Style Green Barberini Chest with Drawers
By Porte Italia
Located in Ronchi dei Legionari, IT
The chalky white frame adds a gentle, timeworn elegance, as though the chest has been treasured for generations Each piece from our Collections is in fact entirely hand painted on ev...
Wood
18th Century Hand-Painted Venetian Style Dorsoduro Chest with Blooming Flowers
By Porte Italia
Located in Ronchi dei Legionari, IT
We have seen it used as the perfect tall chest piece for the entryway, as well as in the bedside table - in any way, our goal is for this chest to be your companion for years to come.
Wood
Italian Venetian Louis XIV Rococo Burl Walnut Bombé Chests A Pair
Located in Bradenton, FL
A Pair of 19th Century Italian Rococo-Style Bombé Chests, beautifully crafted in burled walnut veneer. The warm honey and caramel tones of the burl create dramatic visual depth and l...
Wood, Burl
18th Century Hand-Painted Venetian Style Flex Dorsoduro Chest with Tulips
By Porte Italia
Located in Ronchi dei Legionari, IT
From our Hand-Painted Furniture Collection, we are pleased to introduce you to our Flex Dorsoduro Chest of Drawers. In the Venetian language "Dorsoduro" means "hard back".
Wood
18th Century Hand Painted Venetian Pink Bamboo Fiesole Chest with Butterflies
By Porte Italia
Located in Ronchi dei Legionari, IT
Venetian techniques of hand-painting and decorating.
Wood
18th Century Hand Painted Venetian Style Blue Barberini Chest with Drawers
By Porte Italia
Located in Ronchi dei Legionari, IT
From our hand painted Furniture Collection, we are pleased to introduce you to our Deep Sea Blue Barberini Chest with Drawers. In a Deep Sea Blue color background with our sunflower...
Wood
18th Century Hand-Painted Venetian Style Fiesole Chest with Tiles Decor
By Porte Italia
Located in Ronchi dei Legionari, IT
From our Hand-Painted Furniture Collection, we are pleased to introduce you to our Fiesole Chest with our new faux Tiles Decor. Italian ceramic tiles date back many centuries and ca...
Wood
Modern Venetian Fresco Glass Fuchsia & Gold Chest - Four Drawers by Ercole Home
By Ercole Home
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Venetian Fresco Fuschia and Gold Chest of Four Drawers features a white lacquered wood finish with drawer fronts in hand-painted Venetian Fresco glass in fuchsia and gold.
Gold Leaf
1890s Venetian Baroque Cabinet Chest of drawers console Handcarved Walnut Burl
Located in Vigonza, Padua
Important precious 19th century Venetian Baroque low dresser console, hand-carved walnut, and burl walnut inlaid All solid wood including bottom of the drawers and back Measure in ...
Walnut, Burl
18th Century Hand Painted Venetian Blue Petrol Bamboo Fiesole Chest with flowers
By Porte Italia
Located in Ronchi dei Legionari, IT
Like each one of our Porte Italia pieces, this beautiful Fiesole Chest is finished with traditional techniques of Venetian hand-painting.
Wood
18th Century Hand-Painted Venetian Style Chalky White Taupe Ca' Rezzonico Chest
By Porte Italia
Located in Ronchi dei Legionari, IT
From our Hand-Painted Furniture Collection, we are pleased to introduce you to our Chalky White and Taupe Ca'Rezzonico Chest of Drawers. A beautifully spacious chest of drawers, whi...
Wood
18th Century Hand-Painted Venetian Style Light Blue Dorsoduro Chest of Drawers
By Porte Italia
Located in Ronchi dei Legionari, IT
Like each one of our pieces, also this Dorsoduro Chest may be customized with any color and decoration according to our customers’ requests.
Wood
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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