Historic furniture has a great ethnographic and historical value, as styles and designs responded to specific uses, fashion trends and the social status of the buyer or the commissioner. Placing it in an exact chronological and geographical production context increases our knowledge about preferences for materials, designs, and woodworking practices for household commodities. Here we present the results of dendrochronological research carried out on an English chest from a private collection. The chest is of a hybrid construction, with boarded sides and back, and a joined front with four carved linenfold panels. It had been described as made of Baltic oak and dating to the mid-16th century, a crucial transition period for which only a few early chests have been analysed. Our results demonstrate, however, that the wood from the lid, side boards and back originates from the south of England. Heartwood/sapwood border in the left side board has allowed an estimated felling date for the tree of between 1520 and 1552. Terminus post quem dates of the rest of the elements pre-dating this interval indicate that the chest was likely made in the second quarter of the 16th century, as initially described. Three linenfold panels show typical features of Baltic wood, whereas the fourth one has different characteristics and could have been made with English oak, but the lack of access to the tree-ring patterns hampers verifying this hypothesis. Mixture of provenances suggests a production workshop in London, although other town in the south with a major timber market cannot be discarded. The construction features are described, and two distinct marks found in the chest are discussed in the regional context of its production. To allow the compilation and inventory of such marks, the ‘Marks on Wood’ community has been created in Zenodo and is presented here.

具有历史意义的家具具有巨大的人种学和历史价值，因为样式和设计可响应特定用途，时尚趋势以及买方或专员的社会地位。将其放置在准确的时间和地理生产环境中，可以增加我们对家用商品的材料，设计和木工实践偏爱的知识。在这里，我们介绍了从私人收藏中对英国箱子进行的树木年代学研究的结果。胸部为混合式结构，两侧和背部为单板，正面连接有四个雕花亚麻布折叠面板。据说它是用波罗的海橡木制成的，可追溯到16世纪中叶，这是一个关键的过渡时期，在此期间，仅分析了一些早期的箱子。但是，我们的结果表明，盖子上的木头 侧板和背板起源于英格兰南部。左侧板上的心材/边材边界估计该树的砍伐日期为1520至1552年。终点站队列如最初所述，此间隔之前的其他元素的日期表明胸部可能是在16世纪第二个季度制成的。三张亚麻布镶板显示出波罗的海木材的典型特征，而第四张亚麻布镶板具有不同的特征，可能是用英式橡木制成的，但是缺少树木的年轮图案阻碍了这一假设的证实。种种来源表明在伦敦有一个生产车间，尽管不能丢弃南部有主要木材市场的其他城镇。描述其构造特征，并在其生产的区域背景下讨论在胸部发现的两个明显标记。为了允许对这些标记进行汇编和清点，在Zenodo中创建了“木材上的标记”社区，并在此处进行介绍。