Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
QUEEN ANNE STYLE
Although named for the last Stuart monarch of England, antique Queen Anne furniture, with its curvy cabriole legs and pad feet, has its origins in the earlier reign of King William III, which began in 1689 and ended with his death in 1702. Later evolving during Anne’s rule from 1702–14, the style would continue to influence design in the decades after her death.
Sometimes called late Baroque or early Georgian, Queen Anne chairs, bedroom furniture and tables are subdued yet ornate and characterized by a graceful blend of influences ranging from Asian design to classical motifs. Furnishings of this era — with their curvilinear supports and novel emphasis on comfort and versatility — are marked by a shift away from the more opulent and angular William and Mary style.
Chairs designed in the Queen Anne style are more functional and lightweight than their predecessors. They often feature a vase or fiddle-shaped splat, which refers to the central vertical back element, in order to support the spine and plush cushions. Craftsmen of the era predominantly worked in walnut, maple and pine. Any embellishments they introduced in their furnishings were frequently minimal and refined and expressed by way of modest flourishes such as shells or scrolls. Some pieces were more lavish with “japanned” finishes, or varnished interpretations of East Asian lacquer art. Almost every piece of furniture, whether a tea table or desk, included S-shaped, animalistic cabriole legs that end in a paw or claw-and-ball form.
These qualities made Queen Anne furniture popular throughout Europe and North America. Boston and Philadelphia became hubs for the production of this style of furniture, spurred by the arrival of British artisans who fostered a market for well-heeled colonists. While the showier Chippendale style later surpassed it in popularity, Queen Anne’s simple elegance still draws an enduring appreciation.
Find a collection of antique Queen Anne dining tables, seating, cabinets and other authentic period furniture on 1stDibs.
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Style: Queen Anne
18th Century Decorated Walnut Chest of Drawers
Located in High Point, NC
Early 18th century decorated walnut chest of drawers from England. The top is made of two planks and has gorgeous banding around the edge of the chest which ends in beveled molded ed...
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18th Century English Antique Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
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Walnut
Antique 18th Century New Hampshire Queen Anne Maple Highboy
Located in Westfield, MA
This distinguished 18th-century New Hampshire Queen Anne maple highboy, a testament to early American craftsmanship, showcases the enduring ap...
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Late 18th Century American Antique Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
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Maple
Late 18th Century American Queen Anne Flat Top Maple Highboy Double
Located in Southampton, NY
Late 18th Century American Queen Anne Flat Top Maple Highboy Double,
Four short drawers with central cellarette over three graduated long drawers, over a base fitted with five short...
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Late 18th Century American Antique Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Brass
Rare Queen Anne Highboy and Matching Lowboy
Located in Woodbury, CT
This antique Queen Highboy and matching Lowboy set from Boston dates back to 1720-40 and features a beautiful crotch walnut veneer with old finish. The intricate design and craftsman...
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Early 18th Century American Antique Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
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Wood, Maple, Walnut
Antique New England Maple Queen Anne Scroll Top Highboy c. 1760
Located in Westfield, MA
A magnificent New England Queen Anne scroll-top highboy, dating to circa 1760, this piece exemplifies the elegance and refinement of 18th-century craftsmanship. The scroll-top pedime...
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1760s American Antique Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
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Maple
Antique Queen Anne Early 18th Century Inlaid Burr Walnut Escritoire Desk Chest
Located in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Antique Early 18th Century Queen Anne Inlaid Burr Walnut Escritoire/Desk/Chest
This fine quality early 18th Century Queen Anne escritoire is a wonderfully charming period piece, sho...
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Early 18th Century Antique Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
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Walnut
Pair of Antique Queen Anne Style Bedside Chests
Located in London, GB
A smart and very well made pair of antique bedside chests. They were made in England in the Queen Anne Style, they date from around the 1930’s.
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1930s British Vintage Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
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Wood
18th Century New England Highboy in Cherry with Fan Carving
Located in Milford, NH
A fine two part married cherry highboy in cherry with a molded cornice surmounting an upper case with two over four graduated drawer configuration, and an associated lower case with ...
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18th Century American Antique Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Brass
18th century early Georgian walnut Chest on chest tall boy circa 1720
Located in Chelmsford, GB
Early 18th century very fine and grand example of a walnut chest on chest/tallboy. The cavetto cornice above an arrangement of three short and three long drawers to the top half, , a...
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1720s English Antique Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
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Walnut
1981 Statton Queen Anne Style Highboy
Located in Bradenton, FL
A 1981 Queen Anne style highboy made of solid Appalachian cherry wood, made by Statton Furniture Company for their Private Collection II. Carved flame finials surmount the bonnet top...
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1980s American Vintage Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Brass
American Queen Anne Antique Sycamore Flat-Top Highboy, New England c. 1760
Located in Shippensburg, PA
QUEEN ANNE CARVED AND FIGURED SYCAMORE FLAT-TOP HIGHBOY
New England States, circa 1760-1780 formerly with Sotheby's in 2003
Item # 209MPN16S
A very fine flat-top highboy executed ...
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18th Century American Antique Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Brass
Queen Anne Oyster Veneer Chest Of Drawers
Located in Essex, MA
Rectangular top with a design of cross section veneer from branches assembled to create a pattern. Rounded molded edge. The case with two over three drawers all with oyster patterns ...
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1710s English Antique Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Brass
Queen Anne Walnut Highboy
By William Savery
Located in West Chester, PA
Finely grained wood, chamfered fluted corners, fishtail skirt. Cabriole legs with shells on knees terminating in bold trifit feet. Descended in the Scull family of Philadelphia. Attributed to William Savery...
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18th Century American Antique Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Walnut
Queen Anne Herringbone-Banded Walnut Chest on Stand Circa 1710
Located in Flower Mound, TX
An early eighteenth century herringbone-banded figured walnut chest on stand with concave molded drawer to the cornice above two small and three long graduated drawers, the base fit...
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Early 18th Century English Antique Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Walnut
English Walnut and Satinwood Inlaid Petite Chest or Bachelor's Chest, circa 1715
Located in Kinderhook, NY
A fine and rare circa 1715 English late Queen Anne, early George I period small scale dressing or bachelor's chest, the walnut veneered case having bookmatched quarter-veneered and featherbanded top with a molded edge above a brushing slide and four long graduated drawers with satinwood featherband inlay borders and stamped brass hardware, raised on original bracket feet.
Provenance: Previously sold through Kentshire Galleries...
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Early 18th Century English Antique Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Brass
Queen Anne Revival Walnut Chest on Stand circa 1920s
Located in Dereham, GB
Fine Queen Anne Revival Walnut Chest on Stand circa 1920s
Shaped walnut moulded edge top,
4 drawer chest, sitting on single drawer base.
with Key
Oak Lined Drawers,
Period Queen...
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1920s British Vintage Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Walnut
Fine Burr Walnut 6 drawer chest with centre cupboard circa 1930s
Located in Dereham, GB
Fine Burr Walnut 6 drawer chest with centre cupboard circa 1930s
Fine Burr Walnut veneers
Two Long drawers at top with bowfront centre
Beneath single bowfront centre cupboard
with w...
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1930s British Vintage Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Walnut
18th Century Queen Anne Crossbanded Walnut Chest on Frame
Located in Charleston, SC
18th Century English Queen Anne crossbanded walnut chest on frame. Three herringbone inlaid drawers with original 18th century pulls on frame with Queen Anne pad feet. Top is beautif...
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19th Century English Antique Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Walnut
18th Century Queen Anne Highboy with Engraved Brasses
Located in Milford, NH
A fine Queen Anne two part highboy with a molded cornice surmounting an upper case with five graduated drawers over an associated lower case with three fitted drawers, all with early...
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Mid-17th Century American Antique Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Brass
18th-Century Queen Anne Walnut Chest on Stand / Highboy
Located in Hoddesdon, GB
A wonderful early 18th-century Queen Anne period walnut chest on stand/highboy, displaying its original untouched colour and patina. It is structurally sound with smoothly running dr...
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Early 18th Century English Antique Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Brass
English Queen Anne, Early 18th Century Red Chinoiserie Lacquer Desk / Commode
Located in Troy, NY
A small early 18th century red lacquer chinoiserie decorated commode with a desk compartment, the hinged slant front - flip top, supported by pull-out...
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Early 18th Century English Antique Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Wood
Queen Ann Walnut Metamorphic Chest with Pull Out Writing Desk, 18th Century
Located in Charleston, SC
An extraordinarily rare English Queen Ann Walnut metamorphic chest of drawers with pull out writing desk made in the early 18th century. This remarkable George I period queen Ann chest...
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Early 18th Century English Antique Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Walnut
Rare Queen Anne Chinoiserie Japanned Chest On Stand
Located in Lymington, GB
A sophisticated Queen Anne-period chinoiserie japanned chest raised on elegant cabriole legs with 'pony foot' carved detailing.
This early-18th century chest on stand demonstrates the charming and highly fashionable English domestic interpretation of oriental scenes of pagodas, rockwork, trees, ornamental bridges, mythical birds, and figures dressed in the oriental manner, holding parasols and cavorting in gardens. All in remarkable condition having survived some three hundred years. Chests on cabriole supports of this form were also very much in fashion in the American colonies during this early Queen Anne-period (1702-1714). Sometimes erroneously referred to as ‘'lacquer''.
The fashion icon Coco Chanel furnished her exquisite Paris apartments largely in the European chinoiserie taste.
References:
V & A Museum, London - The development of English black japanning 1620-1820.
Literature and further reading:
John Stalker and George Parker...
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18th Century English Antique Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Lacquer
Queen Anne Style Burled Walnut Chest of Drawers, c. 1800
Located in Chicago, IL
This gorgeous chest of drawers dates to the late-18th century and was crafted in the Queen Anne style with a walnut veneer, bracket feet, and a slightly...
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Late 18th Century British Antique Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Brass
Super Queen Anne Burr Walnut Dressing Table
Located in Swadlincote, GB
Superb Queen Anne style burr walnut five drawer serpentine dressing table with freestanding tryptic bevelled glass mirror, in excellent overall condition.
29.5" high
46" wide
23" de...
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Early 20th Century English Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Burl
Queen Anne Walnut Chest on Stand
Located in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire
An early 18th century veneered walnut chest on stand of a superb colour and patina. The drawers with matched veneers, herring bone banding and cr...
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Early 18th Century English Antique Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Walnut
Desirable New England Diminutive Two Part Highboy
Located in Stamford, CT
A desirable, diminutive New England two part flat top highboy, in rare transitional William & Mary to Queen Anne form. Top and bottom are original mat...
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Mid-18th Century American Antique Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Walnut
Queen Anne Walnut Chest On Stand
Located in London, GB
An English Queen Anne walnut chest on stand, comprising five drawers with the original brass handles. Good figuring and colour throughout, the ...
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1710s English Antique Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Brass
18th Century Queen Anne Cherry Wood Two Part Highboy with Radial Fan Carving
Located in Milford, NH
A beautiful Queen Anne cherry wood two part highboy with a mahoganized finish, with a molded cornice surmounting an upper case with five graduated drawers, over a lower case with a s...
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Mid-17th Century American Antique Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Brass
19th Century Cherry Queen Anne Style Flat Top Highboy
Located in Bridgeport, CT
19th century Queen Anne style highboy in two parts with 5 graduated upper drawers having dovetail joinery. The lower with pegged construction, one long shallow drawer above three dee...
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19th Century Antique Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Brass
William Savery Attributed Cherry Bonnet-Top High-Boy Bureau, Circa 1750s
By William Savery
Located in Germantown, MD
11-drawer William Savery Attributed Cherry Bonnet-Top High-Boy / Bureau, with Fine grained wood, Cabriole legs with fine barley twist finials. Attribute...
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Mid-18th Century American Antique Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Brass
Thomasville Cherry Wood Queen Anne Style Highyboy Tall Chest Dresser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Thomasville Cherry Wood Queen Anne Style Highyboy Tall Chest Dresser. Item features a tall impressive form, Queen Anne style legs, nice carvings, 14...
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Late 20th Century Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Wood, Cherry
Vintage Old Meeting House Maple Queen Anne Lowboy Buffet Sideboard Console 54"
By Winchendon
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique Old Meeting House Queen Anne style buffet / sideboard / console / credenza. Made of maple featuring rectangular form with four large drawers, brass hardware, serpentine skir...
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Mid-20th Century American Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Maple
Early 18th Century Antique English Queen Anne Walnut Chest of Drawers
Located in Devon, GB
A fine Queen Anne period antique patinated, walnut chest of drawers. The chest has a rectangular moulded top with contrasting feather banding. In the centre is an oval panel, quarter...
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Early 18th Century English Antique Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
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Walnut
Pair Burr Walnut Bedside Lamp Chests of Drawers
Located in Swadlincote, GB
Very good pair of drop flap double serpentine bedside lamp chest of three drawers, with brass handles,in excellent overall condition.
27" high
16" wide. 25" flaps up
15" depth
You a...
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Early 20th Century English Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Burl
Queen Anne Walnut Flat Top High Boy
Located in West Chester, PA
Walnut Queen Anne highboy with lovely figured wood drawer fronts. Nicely scalloped aprons and cabriole legs terminating in trifid feet.
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18th Century American Antique Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Walnut
Antique American Solid Walnut Queen Ann 2 Part Highboy Dovetails Finials MINT!
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Antique American Solid Walnut Queen Ann 2 Part Highboy Dovetails Finials MINT!.
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20th Century American Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Walnut
19th century Queen Anne walnut chest of drawers / commode
Located in Chelmsford, GB
A wonderful late 19th century walnut Queen Anne style chest of drawers circa 1870 .
The chest of drawers consists of two small over 3 large graduating drawers .with herringbone inlay...
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1880s English Antique Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
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Walnut
Queen Anne Burled Walnut Slant Front Desk
Located in Hudson, NY
This very fine and fully restored Queen Anne slant front desk was crafted in burled walnut on an oak carcass. This secondary wood choice wa...
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1720s British Antique Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Brass
Mahagony Flatware Chest End Table by Thomas Pacconi
Located in Plainview, NY
A beautiful Queen Ann style floor standing flatware or end table by Thomas Pacconi Classics ( 1900-2000). The elegant chest is finely hand-carved using ...
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Late 20th Century Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Mahogany
Queen Anne Small Oak Chest of Drawers
By Queen Anne
Located in Sherborne, GB
Antique English Queen Anne small chest of drawers circa 1710, rare sweet size only 25 inches wide, majority of chests this size are converted commodes but this one isn’t, the whole c...
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Early 18th Century Antique Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
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Oak
Gorgeous Baker Stately Homes Collection Queen Anne Walnut & Burl Commode
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Gorgeous rich looking Baker Stately Home Collection Queen Anne style small chest or commode having walnut & burl veneer, 7 drawers, eleg...
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1980s American Vintage Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Brass
American 18th Century Walnut Lowboy, circa 1780
Located in Lambertville, NJ
A classic American Queen Anne walnut lowboy with brass hardware. The shapely apron with three upper drawers with two smaller drawers below. Th...
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1780s American Antique Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
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Walnut
Antique Burr Walnut Chest of Drawers
Located in London, GB
A stunning antique burr walnut chest of drawers of the highest order. This was made in England by Maples, it dates from around the 1920’s period.
It is of extremely fine quality, th...
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1920s British Vintage Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
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Walnut
Queen Anne Chest of Drawer with Writing Desk
Located in Milano, IT
Queen Anne flap supported by shelf feet, on the front it has three drawers surmounted by a pair of small drawers, flanked by pull-out drawers to ...
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Mid-18th Century English Antique Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Walnut, Burl
Antique Queen Anne style burr walnut tall boy chest of drawers commode
Located in Chelmsford, GB
Fine quality Queen Anne style burr walnut chest on stand tall boy circa 1920 ..
The chest has a great colour and grain with a fantastic shape .
The shaped drawers are oak lined with ...
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1920s English Vintage Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Walnut
A Queen Anne Style Walnut Flat-Top Chest on Stand 19th Century Height 68 1/2 x w
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Very Fine Queen Anne Style Burled Walnut Flat-Top Chest on Stand
19th Century.
Height 68 1/2 x width 32 x depth 19 inches.
CW5303
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1880s English Antique Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Wood
Early 18th Century Geometric-Front Chest on Chest
Located in Lymington, GB
An English early-18th century oak geometrically-panelled chest on chest, ca 1710-1720.
Queen Anne / George I-period.
NB. This is an interesting example of a transition from the lat...
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18th Century English Antique Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Oak
19th Century English Victorian Burr Walnut Chest on Stand
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
For sale is a good quality burr walnut chest on stand. The top of the chest has an arched pediment with a single drawer in the centre. Below this there are two short drawers over thr...
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Late 19th Century English Antique Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Walnut
Queen Anne Style Chest of Drawers
Located in Asheville, NC
Fine 6 drawer high chest with fan-carved center and cabriole legs ending in pad feet. Unpolished wood with iron handles and keyholes with keys.
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20th Century Unknown Queen Anne Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Iron
Queen Anne commodes and chests of drawers for sale on 1stDibs.
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