Chests (furniture)

in Judaism, a wooden chest containing the two stone tablets of the Ten Commandments

box-shaped type of furniture

thumb|300px|Reliquary Shrine (de Touyl)| Reliquary Shrine, French, –50, [[The Cloisters, New York]] thumb|Inside the shrine of St. Saint Boniface| Boniface of Dokkum in the hermit-church of [[Warfhuizen in the Netherlands. The little folded paper on the left contains a bone fragment of Saint Benedict of Nursia, the folded paper on the right a piece of the habit of St. Bernard of Clairvaux. The large bone in the middle (about 5 cm in length) is the actual relic of St. Boniface.]]

Anglo-Saxon carved chest

traditionally, a box or chest (furniture) that women use to store dower items, including linens and baby clothes; may include items that do not fit in one box

thumb|Some cassoni, in the Museo Bardini, Florence thumb|Republic of Florence|Florentine cassone from the 15th century (M.A.N., [[Madrid)]] thumb|Walnut cassone in the form of an Antique sarcophagus, Rome, 16th century ([[Walters Art Museum)]]

oak chest dating from the Middle Ages