Help Please..... Can Anyone Identify the Country of Origin of this Chest?

ohhh....pretty pretty.....!
the furniture guys will want a look at this...!
@verybrad ....for one !
@James Conrad ....for 2...

 

I'd guess English as secondary drawer construction looks like oak

 

Can’t help, just wanted to say your photos are wonderful!

 

Did the English use birds eye maple ? Isnt that what I see on the drawer fronts? Lovely piece.

 

the pattern of the burl on the bottom two drawers is almost a perfect match...

how?

 

I don't know if they did or not but I'd say yes, it does look like birdseye maple.

Hmmm, looking at it again, it does seem almost identical, surely it's not painted? or inked?

 

Maple can fool you though, check out this chest from Christie's London, It's a George III chest, 1760 & i thought it was built from imported maple from America, it's actually English Sycamore, which is a maple native to england. Brits call it "fiddleback"
Tiger maple chest that's really tiger sycamore!

 

Yeah, that could very well explain it.

 

Screams and shouts English. We did use birds eye, but I think that's burr walnut with one of the really complex patterns. Late 18th C into early 19th, and lovely. Thw match on the veneer says high quality.

 

Remainder is rosewood, I think - although the pillars look mahogany.

 

Would think 1870s or so and English. I think that top with the cross-grain skirt looks really odd on this. Likely a base to something taller that has been modified.

 

I think it's a fair bit earlier than that, fwiw. Looking again, I see what you mean about the top.

 

Agrees, Yes, victorian era no doubt.

 

I'm disagreeing. This is stylistically very much like a lot of William IV stuff. Here, anyhow.

 

Thanks everyone for your input...I'm glad I'm not the only one who is a little perplexed by this piece. I was pretty sure the burl wood on the drawer fronts is Amboyna wood. Its the burl wood of the Narra tree, something I have seen quite a bit on high end furniture, especially Gillows circa 1870s. Anyone else think that?

 

I was asking country of origin as I was pretty sure its not English. The handles and escutcheons, the locks, the very heavy construction of the drawers and the general shape to me says not English. I was thinking possibly Italian? Baroque revival...anyone else feeling this?

 

verybrad you are right it has had a top at some point.

 

To me it looks like a late 19th century mashup/interpretation of 16th-17th century Italian furniture..