Rosewood Wellington Chest

George III small mahogany chest of drawers with original plate handles and brushing slide, the drawers oak lined; good color and patina.

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...

A rare George III mahogany serpentine chest, only 35.5" wide with reeded canted corners, shaped sides and of a good rich color.

A Charles II 17 century oak chest with moulded front drawers, snakewood and bog oak panels and turned spindles and applied designs down each side. The top four drawers are half width...

This is a tall antique Wellington chest. An English, walnut collector's specimen chest of drawers, dating to the mid Victorian period, circa 1860. Superb example of Victorian collec...

19th century mahogany Wellington chest attributed to Gillows, a lovely rich mahogany color with six mahogany lined drawers with original wooden knobs, the top drawer front drops down...

BIG Victorian Mahogany Chest of Drawers, Scotch Chest The chest is Heavy Quality and has well figured Flame Mahogany Veneers with large barley twist pillars on either side and it h...

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...