One of the most useful pieces of household furniture, early chests-of-drawers were often the products of joiners shops. More elaborate than a simple six-board chest or an upright chest-with-drawers, this example is fashioned with double and single applied bead molding and large bulbous turned feet and although made of figured maple, may have had a painted or washed surface.

A nearly identical example originally owned by Desire Cushman (c. 1670-1762) of Plymouth, is in the collection of the Pilgrim Society, Plymouth, is in the collection of the Pilgrim Society, Plymouth, Massachusetts and is illusrated in The Magazine Antiques (May 1985):1118. A similar example is in the collection of the Essex Institute (Clunie, Furniture at the Essex Institute (Salem, 1980), p. 15).