Item disappearing in chest

My lava bucket disappeared and my very sad about it after I put my lava bucket in a chest and went out to the home screen and deleted for the history. I notice that my thing was still in the furnace so I log on and it seem to me that I also was in a different spot to so I got my things from the furnace and went to that chest to put my things in but I noticed my lava bucket was gone.

What I expected to happen was...:
I thought the items should have stay in the chest after going out

What actually happened was...:
Lava disappeared from chest and not in my inventory

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Put item in chest
2. Go to home screen and delete it from history
3. To back in and things are gone from chest