The drawer-fitted chest, with its ribbon-framed tablets of richly-figured walnut, is likely to have been commissioned by Roger Wilbraham (d. 1754) for Delamere House, Cheshire around the time of his marriage in 1731 to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Brooke, 3rd Bt. of Norton Priory. A related chest, supplied for Dunham Massey, Cheshire is illustrated in J. Hardy and G. Jackson-Stops, 'The Second Earl of Warrington and the 'Age of Walnut'', Apollo, July 1978, p. 19, fig. 17).