Victorian Mahogany Wellington Chest

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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 fine quality early Victorian satinwood wellington chest with eight graduated mahogany Lined draws. This fine piece retains its original handles and is of a lovely original color.

Each with squarish rectangular tops over six green tooled leather faced drawers with cast bail handles the whole with hinged lock side mechanism with key. Plinth base.

AN EARLY VICTORIAN HUNGARIAN ASH WELLINGTON CHEST ATTRIBUTED TO HOLLAND & SONS, CIRCA 1860. With six graduated cedar and mahogany-lined drawers banded in a dark burr wood.