This block-front chest may be a product ofeither a Charlestown or Salem, Massachusetts cabinetshop. Made in a manner unusual in Boston but more typical of the other two communities, this chest is constructed without a giant dovetails of the drawer dividers. The chest is built in a particularly proficient manner with finely cut dovetails, fitted partitions in the top drawer, and the unusual and more costly incorporation of three full dustboards, a technique continued from English practices.

Related rounded block-front chests that share the same foot pattern are illustrated in the Decorative Arts Photographic Collection, Winterthur Museum, nos. 70.3728 and 90.606 (the latter from Bernard & S. Dean Levy, Inc.).