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Blanket Chests For Sale
Vintage Large Royal Robe Art Deco Standing Wardrobe Steamer Travel Trunk
By Royal Robe
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage large Royal Robe Art Deco standing wardrobe steamer travel trunk. Listing includes interior drawers, heavy quality construction, rolling casters, or...
Category
Early 20th Century North American Art Deco Blanket Chests
Materials
Metal, Brass
Massive Antique Indian Carved Wood Dowry Chest
Located in Bridgeport, CT
The entire chest with framed square panels in three rows on the top, and four on the front, sides, and back. The front panels have added X form decorative pieces and all frames have ...
Category
19th Century Indian Rustic Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Iron
Gothic chest with decorated front late 18th century
Located in Diest, BE
An antique Gothic French chest with a carved wood exterior and metal hardware.
Category
18th Century French Gothic Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Wood
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
Late 19th Century Tibetan Tibetan Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Pine
Antique English Trunk Coffer Blanket Chest Carved Oak Foyer Table Wedding Chest
Located in Shreveport, LA
19th century Antique English Trunk coffer blanket Chest Carved Oak Foyer table.
Direct from England, a wonderfully hand carved English “coffer...
Category
1820s British Jacobean Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Oak
Pine Trunk or Blanket Chest in Decorative Paint
Located in Baltimore, MD
We love these extra long blanket chests. Placed against the wall it has as many uses as the variety of things you can put in it, or it can make a p...
Category
Late 19th Century Hungarian Folk Art Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Pine
Strongbox Safe Iron Painted Armada Chest Nuremberg Renaissance
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
Rare, small, late-Renaissance, Nuremberg, iron, 'armada box', strongbox or travelling safe with its original, naïve, painted decoration
This is a rare, s...
Category
16th Century German Renaissance Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Iron
Antique 19th Century Solid Pine and Traditional Painted Bohemian Trunk or Chest
Located in Casteren, NL
This beautiful trunk or blanket chest was made in the mountain area of Austria in the early 19th century, circa 1820. It was completely made in solid pine by the use of traditional w...
Category
Early 19th Century Austrian Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Steel
Astounding Ancient British 17th Century Bible Box
Located in Hopewell, NJ
British 17th century bible box - early oak with beautiful carvings. Six solid wood slab sides. Bought in the north of England.
#5329.
Category
17th Century English Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Oak
Large Oriental Carved Camphor Wood Chest
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Large oriental carved camphor wood chest
This Beautiful Carved Chest is made from Camphor Wood, for those of you who do not know camphor wood it look...
Category
1840s Folk Art Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Wood
19th Century Oak Blanket Chest with Brass Hardware and Lateral Handles
Located in Atlanta, GA
An oak or teak blanket chest from the 19th century with traditional brass lock, lateral handle and dovetail construction. Exuding an undeniable charm from the 19th century, this oak ...
Category
19th Century Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Brass
Antique Oak Flat-Lidded Chest from 1691 Renaissance-early Baroque, 17th century
Located in Halle, DE
Antique flat-lidded chest from the 17th century. Renaissance / Early Baroque. Made in 1691 in oak wood. Until recently, the chest was owned for 333 years by a family of lawyers from ...
Category
17th Century German Baroque Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Oak
Vintage Red Leather Lacquer Blanket Chest with Brass Hardware
Located in Yonkers, NY
A vintage Chinese blanket chest from the Mid-20th Century with red lacquered leather, brass hardware and blue fabric lining on the inside. Created in China during the midcentury peri...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Blanket Chests
Materials
Brass
Well Proportioned Early 19Th C. Portuguese Coffer
Located in London, GB
A well proportioned northern Portuguese chestnut coffer from the early 19th C.
Heavily patinated with a strong utilitarian design.
Category
Early 19th Century Portuguese Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Chestnut
17th Century Northern France Wedding Chest in Carved Oak
Located in Dallas, TX
Based on the facing portrait cartouches on the front facade, this chest was most likely presented to a couple for their wedding in 17th-century Northern France. The oak wood has a deep brown patina that accentuates the hand-carved frontage, depicting a man (on the left) facing a woman (on the right), surrounded by scrolls and a sprawling foliate margent. A quarter-round edge embellishes the lid, which can be opened to reveal deep storage, including a 5 ½ inch tall side compartment. Several thin layers of molding can be seen on the low profile apron above small bracket feet.
A chest like this would have been offered as a wedding dowry, most likely commissioned by the parents of the bride or possibly even by the husband himself. The chest would have been used to store valuables for the couple’s new life together, with the wrought iron handles on the sides allowing the chest to be easily transported. Our 17th-century wedding chest can be used functionally as a small storage chest for a bedroom or bathroom or displayed as a well-carved room...
Category
17th Century French Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Metal, Wrought Iron
Stripped Pine Blanket Box, Coffee Table or ToyBox
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Stripped Pine Blanket Box, Coffee Table or ToyBox
Victorian Pine Blanket Box or Coffee Table, this piece has many uses
This is a good quality pine box it has been fully restored, i...
Category
1880s Arts and Crafts Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Pine
Country Pine Blanket Chest with Inner Cedar Lining
Located in Germantown, MD
This brilliant Cedar Trunk chest is made of cedar wood, pine cedar, and is in good vintage condition. This exquisite cedar chest has great Traditional style with a classic silhouette...
Category
Late 20th Century American American Classical Blanket Chests
Materials
Cedar, Pine, Paint
19th C. Refurbished and ReUpholstered Dome Top Metal & Wood Bound Blanket Chest
Located in Germantown, MD
A 19th Century refurbished and ReUpholstered dome top Metal and wood bound blanket chest in American Colonial style. Measures 33" in width, 18.5" in depth and 26" in height.
Category
Late 19th Century American American Colonial Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Metal
19th Century Brass Bound Wood Campaign Trunk
Located in San Juan Capistrano, CA
19th Century Brass Bound Campaign Trunk / Chest. Beautiful desirable patina.
Category
19th Century Unknown Campaign Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Brass, Iron
London Laundry Co. Industrial Trolley Cart Great piece from the London Laundry
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
London Laundry Co. Industrial Trolley Cart
Great piece from the London Laundry Co. Clerkenwell, the cart is made in thick heavy duty parchmen...
Category
19th Century Industrial Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Pine
Chest or Stollentruhe, Early 16th Century, German Gothic, Oak Chest, Original
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
This standing chest is of clamp-front construction, extensively decorated with long, ironwork straps with quatrefoil finials which ‘wrap’ around it, and has an ornate, central lockplate, and front legs with full, height stiles. The ironwork straps and finials are fixed with convex, headed nails: running along the front, five long straps; the two side straps; and the five straps on the top. On the chest front, centrally placed, is a large, iron lockplate with four outer, radiating spade finals in each corner and three, superimposed spade finials (a symbol of nobility) which are pierced with the initials ‘BB’. The lockplate receives a corresponding, external hasp fitted to the lid. Below the floor of the chest, the two front stile legs retain most of their original height. The lid is supported by substantial iron strap hinges that extend right down the back of the chest. Inside the chest at the left end is a shallow, oak till.
Construction The chest is of joined, 'clamp-front' construction, reinforced by the nailed, iron mounts. In total it uses ten, oak boards which were riven and planed. The back and front are each formed from a large single plank held to the full height stiles by long, pegged tenons. The sides are also single boards joined into the stiles using long tenons held by dowels, and extend down below the chest bottom, concealing the ends of the bottom boards. The bottom consists of a single board cut into the sides and shallow rebates in the stiles. The front and back boards are dowelled into the bottom boards. The lid which overhangs the sides has a narrow cleat at each end, and consists of one wide plank which has bowed a little as a result of shrinkage.
Ironwork : The wrought ironwork straps, lockplate, hasp and lock all appear all appear to be early, and of the same original manufacture and are fixed with convex headed nails. There is mild dark staining of the oak around the iron mounts, possibly because of low tannin content in the oak.
Length 172 cm., 67 ¾ in., Height 71.5 cm., 28 ¼ in., Depth 63 cm., 24 ¾ in.,
Related to: No 900:2-1904 V&A Museum, London. Stadtmuseum Dusseldorf. Decorative Arts Museum Berlin. Museen Schleswig-Holstein & Hamburg. A related example featuring elaborately-carved feet and formerly in the Horsham Museum, West Sussex, sold at Christie's in 2010 for £97,250 and another example, again with carved feet sold at Sothebys in 2006 for £48,000.
Literature: A similar example is illustrated in H. Lüttgens, Alt- Aachener Wohnkultur; Ein Rundgang durch ein altes Aachener Haus im Wohnstil des 18. Jahrhunderts, Aachen, n.d., ill. 12, and another comparable iron-bound chests...
Category
16th Century German Gothic Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Oak
Antique Zanzibar Omani Teak & Brass Studded Copper Clad Dowry Chest Trunk, 1880
Located in Portland, OR
A good antique Zanzibar, Omani dowry chest, circa 1880.
The chest having a hinged lid clad in decorated copper repousse work, the front and sides having similar decoration, the insi...
Category
Late 19th Century Omani Moorish Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Brass, Copper
Majestic 17th Century Italian Solid Walnut Antique Blanket Chest
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
Beautiful antique blanket chest in solid walnut wood, 1650s. The antique blanket chest also completely original and has great charm. Internally equipp...
Category
1650s Italian Baroque Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Walnut
Camphorwood Campaign Chest - Late 19th Century Chinese Export R.B. Van Cleve, NY
Located in Soquel, CA
Camphorwood Campaign Chest - Late 19th Century Chinese Export Case (Medium)
This hardwood chest has brass hardware, including handles. It has a brass plaque on the top that has been inscribed with the owner's name, R. B. Van Cleave...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Brass
19th Century Hand Painted Chest or Floor Trunk
Located in Praha, CZ
Wooden hand painted chest with folk pattern. Saved from an old mill in the former Czechoslovakia.
Category
Late 19th Century Czech Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Wood
Antique Red Leather, Brass and Camphor Wood Chinese Export Trunk
Located in Centennial, CO
A beautiful, antique (mid 1800s) Chinese red leather and brass over camphor wood export trade trunk offers ample storage and could be used as a coffee table or accent piece. It is a ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Brass
18th Century French Renaissance Style Carved Walnut Blanket Chest
Located in Astoria, NY
Magnificent 18th-century French carved chest coffer sourced from Provence, France. Beautifully hand-crafted from solid walnut, it features an intricately hand-carved linenfold compos...
Category
Late 18th Century French Renaissance Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Walnut
Painted Pine Blanket Chest
Located in Wilson, NC
This pine blanket chest is hand painted. The interior lid is painted with stylized spruce trees. The hardwood is original, including the key.
Category
1860s Romanian Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Steel
18th Century Blanket Box or Wedding Dowry Chest
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
Believed to have originated from Southern Italy.
Free shipping within the United States and Canada.
Category
1760s European Rococo Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Wood
Mid-Century Tufted Cedar and Walnut Chest by Lane
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Add a touch of classic sophistication to your home with the Mid-Century Modern Tufted Cedar and Walnut Chest by Lane. Expertly crafted with a rich walnut frame and a beautifully tuft...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Blanket Chests
Materials
Cedar
Coracle Bench with Storage, White Oak and eco-friendly Vegetable Tanned Leather
Located in HAMILTON, ON
Inspired by ancient fishing vessels, the Coracle bench features a half hide of English bridle leather remarkably formed and stretched by hand about a fra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canadian Modern Blanket Chests
Materials
Leather, Wood, Oak
16th Century French Carved Walnut Cassone With Gothic Tracery
Located in Stamford, CT
A wonderful early walnut chest, French 16th century, with a central panel of Gothic tracery. The only other decoration are simple raised molding square diamonds one the front and sid...
Category
16th Century Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Walnut
19th Century Pine Blanket Chest
Located in New York, NY
Large 19th century pine Colonial blanket chest with iron hardware, interior candle box and dovetailed corners. Case shows a very handsome patina and great age and has a small section...
Category
1860s American American Colonial Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Pine
Early 18th Century Wedding Blanket Chest
Located in Vo', Veneto
Tyrolean wedding chest
Measurements: H.80 – L.156 – P.55
Period: early 18th century
Origin: Tyrol
Essence: Fir
Large Tyrolean chest, in fir wood, with shaped lowering.
The front is...
Category
Early 18th Century Italian Folk Art Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Fir
Antique 17th Century Panelled Oak Coffer/Chest
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique 17th century antique panelled oak coffer/chest with three panels to the front, two panels to each side, raised on stile feet, un...
Category
17th Century English Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Oak
Antique 19th Century Painted Grain Poplar Dovetailed Blanket Storage Trunk Chest
Located in Dayton, OH
An antique painted grain storage trunk or chest, circa 1840s. Made from poplar with beautiful red and black graining in the manner of flame mahogany. The case is mounted on bracket ...
Category
1840s American American Empire Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Poplar
European Walnut Storage Chest, Early 19th Century
Located in Chappaqua, NY
European Walnut Storage Chest, early 19th Century. An early chest with triple brass locks and hand-forged iron strap hinges.
Category
Early 19th Century European Country Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Brass, Iron
Antique Georgian Period Dovetailed Oak Mule Chest
Located in Forney, TX
A Georgian era (1714-1837) English oak mule chest.
Born in the late 18th / early 19th century, during the reign of King George III (1760-1820), fine quality craftsmanship and constr...
Category
Late 18th Century George III Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Brass, Iron
Antique Indonesian Wood Decorative Box with Inner Red and Black Lacquered Decor
Located in Yonkers, NY
An Indonesian antique wooden decorative box from the early 20th century, with red lacquered interior lid, lateral handles and bracket feet. Created in Indonesia during the early years of the 20th century, this charming wooden box features a linear silhouette beautifully accented with dovetailed joints on the sides. The lid opens to reveal a convenient storage area with side box, but it is the lid's red and black lacquered decor...
Category
Early 20th Century Indonesian Blanket Chests
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Regency Blanket Chest
Located in Wilson, NC
Simple Regency blanket chest. Satinwood and pine construction with two storage drawers with original brasses. Beautiful patina with banded lid and front.
Lock with key.
Category
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Brass
New England Chippendale Pine Mule Chest
Located in Bradenton, FL
A very nice late 18th century Chippendale Pine Mule Chest in an old dry surface with a great color and patina. Very old refinished surface retains traces of the old red milk paint on...
Category
Late 18th Century American Chippendale Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Pine
Mid-20th Century Lane Legacy Rattan Love Chest
Located in Cincinnati, OH
Mid-20th Century Lane Legacy Rattan Love Chest
Unusual Lane Cedar Chest completely covered in Rattan and Bamboo over solid Cedar.
Lock does not work. No ...
Category
Mid-20th Century North American Blanket Chests
Materials
Rattan, Cedar
17th Century Spanish Baroque Savoy Hand Carved Chest Trunk
Located in Miami, FL
Nice 17th century chest in brown chesnut. Hand carved facade panel with geometrics decorations. Plinth with brace decorations, dovetail assembly with wrought iron wardware.
Add a re...
Category
Late 17th Century Spanish Renaissance Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Iron
Mid 19th Century profusely inlaid continental walnut dome coffer
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Beautiful inlaid dome top chest of the finest quality circa 1869.
Inscribed on the front with the name 'gesche wulff' and dated 1869. Superbly inlaid in satinwood with urns, floral...
Category
Mid-19th Century German Renaissance Revival Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Oak, Walnut
16th Century Henry VIII English Oak Linenfold Chest / Coffer
Located in Hoddesdon, GB
A 16th-century Henry VIII English Oak Linenfold Chest, circa 1540, is a rare example. Made from solid oak boards, the chest features a four-panel lid r...
Category
16th Century British Tudor Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Oak
Indonesian Vintage Chest with Unique Latch & Side Handles
Located in Yonkers, NY
A vintage Indonesian blanket chest from the mid 20th century, with brass studs, unusual lock, dovetail construction visible in the corners and lateral handles. With an air of rustic ...
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Mid-20th Century Indonesian Blanket Chests
Materials
Brass
Late 18th Century Swiss Pine Blanket Chest
Located in Vo', Veneto
Late 18th century Swiss stone pine chest
H. 88 cm – L. 145 cm – D. 69 cm
Beautiful chest in pine wood, built at the end of the eighteenth century.
On the front there are three...
Category
1790s Italian Louis XVI Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Fir
Pine Trunk or Blanket Chest in Original Decorative Paint
Located in Baltimore, MD
This Folk Art painted trunk has the form of a faux mule chest, pretending to have drawers with ceramic knobs, when, in fact, the lid opens on two very long iron strap hinges to a dee...
Category
Late 19th Century Hungarian Folk Art Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Pine
Antique 18th Century Zanzibar Trunk With Studded Copper Decoration
Located in Peabody, MA
A rare 18th century North African Zanzibar trunk, fashioned of cedar with studded decoration and clad with pierced copper panels. Used in Kenya and Zanzibar to store valuables and sp...
Category
18th Century Zanzibari Folk Art Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Copper
Antique 19th Century German Solid Oak Dome Top Chest Trunk Coffer Box
Located in Casteren, NL
This beautiful trunk was made in western Germany in the early 19th century circa 1800. It was made completely in the finest quality European summer oak. The dovetail joints connectin...
Category
Early 19th Century German Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Brass, Steel
Set of 3 Stack Storage Box by Kristina Dam Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 3 stack storage box by Kristina Dam Studio
Materials: Solid oak & walnut with oil treatment.
Dimensions: 34 x 50 x H 67.5 cm.
Stack stor...
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2010s Danish Modern Blanket Chests
Materials
Oak, Walnut
French 18th Century Solid Carved Oak Coffer
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
This solid oak coffer from the 1720s is full of gorgeous hand carved details and a wonderful patina. Swirling acanthus leaves and florals beautifully adorn the facade. Four columns b...
Category
18th Century French French Provincial Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Wood, Hardwood, Oak
Indian 19th Century Wooden Trunk with Brass Inlay and Bracket Feet
Located in Yonkers, NY
An antique wooden trunk from the 19th century, with brass inlay. Created in India during the 19th century, this wooden trunk features a rectangula...
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19th Century Indian Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Brass
Large German Painted Blanket Chest Trunk, 1800s
Located in Southampton, NY
Large German Painted Blanket Chest Trunk, 1800s
This antique painted wooden trunk features a striking geometric design on its front panels, showcasing a blend of rustic craftsmanship...
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Early 19th Century German Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Wood
Three Locks Chest, Walnut, Iron, Spain, 17th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Town hall chest. Walnut wood. XVII century.
Rectangular carved chest of walnut wood, with a flat lid, and simple decoration on its fronts with smooth moldings of different widths. ...
Category
17th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Other, Iron
Zanzibar 19th Century Dowry Chest
Located in Nantwich, GB
A rare mid 19th century Zanzibar chest out fitted with bronze sheet and brass studs in a stunning design on the front, sides and top. Dowry chests have a w...
Category
Mid-19th Century Zanzibari Other Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Antique 18th Century George I Oak Paneled Joined Coffer Mule Chest Trunk 1720
Located in Portland, OR
A good antique English oak coffer/mule chest from the Reign of King George I (1698-1727), the chest circa 1720.
The plank top above a three-panelled trunk, the top rail inscribed wit...
Category
1720s English George I Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Oak
A Large 19th Century Pine Dome Top Trunk This trunk has a very attractive shape
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
A Large 19th Century Pine Dome Top Trunk
This trunk has a very attractive shape, it is made in naturally darkened pine and has very attractive heavy iron strapping metal work. The...
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19th Century Victorian Antique Blanket Chests
Materials
Pine
Vintage, New and Antique Blanket Chests
Antique and vintage blanket chests go by many names. You may have heard them called hope chests, dowry chests or Lane cedar chests, with the latter referring to the now-famous case pieces manufactured by the Lane Furniture company.
No matter the name, these were initially large crude wooden boxes with hinged lids where you stowed away your blankets, household linens and possibly some valuables. Everyone can always use a bit more storage in our bedrooms or guest bedrooms, and blanket chests can be a stylish solution to help you stay organized, particularly if you’re short on closet space.
Blanket storage trunks are still typically equipped with hinges on their lids for easy access to their large storage capacity. They’re often rectangular pieces, but in the hands of today’s furniture designers, contemporary blanket chests take on many shapes and are made of varying materials. Most antique blanket chests are made out of wood, from rich mahogany to oak.
Find a wide range of antique, new and vintage blanket chests available for sale on 1stDibs.
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