The clothes-chest and richly-fretted 'chest-of-drawers' stand is designed in the George II 'antique' manner. Its indented angles are embellished with reeds springing from the Roman acanthus that wraps the serpentined and turned legs, whose round toes are wrapped by palm-ribbons. The latter, together with similarly fretted aprons, features on Dublin-manufactured furniture of the period such as the card-tables illustrated in J. Kirk, American Furniture and the British Tradition to 1830, New York, 1982, (nos. 1369 and 1376). Patterns for related clothes-chests were published both in Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1st. ed., London, 1754, pl. 96, and Ince and Mayhew's The Universal System of Household Furniture, London, 1762, pl. 44.