Antique William And Mary Oyster Chest

A very good quality and charming mid-18th century mahogany chest on chest, or tallboy, having Greek key cornice over three short and six long drawers retaining original brass swa...

A Very Good Quality Late 19th Century Mahogany Double Wellington Chest With Two Banks Of Six Drawers With Replacement Brass Knobs Flanked By Hinged Locking Pilaster To Each Side Raised On Original Plinth Base. The first Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, commissioned the first chest of this type, i.e. a tall bank of drawers secured by hinged locking pilasters to take with him and carry around various battlefields and that is where the name wellington chest comes from. It is now used to refer to almost any tall, narrow antique chest of drawers. By default this particular design of chest is therefore referred to as a double wellington chest. From around 1820 onwards they were manufactured in a huge variety of shapes and sizes, plus they varied a great deal in terms of both their quality and the wood which they are constructed from. This wellington chest is of a form rarely found in terms of its double bank of drawers...

A very good quality 18th century Chippendale Period Georgian mahogany chest of relative small proportion, having well figured top over two short & three long drawers retaining origin...

A Superb Quality Late Regency Period, 19th Century, Tall Mahogany Wellington Chest, Having Well Figured Rectangular Top Over Seven Drawers With Original Turned Wooden Knobs, Flanked ...

An English William & Mary-period oyster laburnum and walnut chest, circa 1700. William lll (1650-1702). A classic oyster-veneered chest of two short and three long graduated drawers all faced with exquisite oyster veneers banded in fruitwood. The top with well-chosen oyster inlays...

18th century William and Mary burl cross-branded oyster veneered walnut chest of drawers. Chest features two short drawers over three long graduated drawers, dovetail drawers with br...

For sale is a good quality William and Mary oyster veneer chest on stand, having moulded feather banded top with a moulded edge and three long dr...

William and Mary oyster veneer Chest of Drawers, late 17th/early 18thc. Great Burl decorated veneer rectangular top wit...