Although the identity of the Philadelphia woodworker called the Garvan Carver remains anonymous, several known examples of this shop's work are related to the high chest illustrated here. In its shell's ruffled, alternating C-scrolled outer edge and pierced lobes, this high chest bears a striking similarity in design and handling to the en suite high chest and dressing table in the Mabel Brady Garvan Collection (illustrated in Gerald Ward, American Case Furniture in the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University, (New Haven, 1988), p. 282, fig. 147 and p. 226, fig. 116), as well as a Garvan Carver example at Winterthur (illustrated in Joseph Downs, American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods, (New York, 1952), pl. 197). Also of interest is the relationship of this high chest to another en suite high chest and dressing table, illustrated in Hornor (Plates 141 and 147). In these examples, not only is the central shell executed again with particular attention to the outline of the shell and its five pierced lobes, but the pendant foliage beneath the shell and its flanking serpentine tendrils are arranged, veined and lobed in a similar manner. This en suite pair is attributed by Hornor to the cabinetmaking shop of Joseph Deleveau, who worked in Philadelphia from 1774 on. Like the Deleveau example, the high chest illustrated here also uses the same juxtaposition of highly carved lower central shell drawer with a relatively more simple flat-shaped skirt centering a single relief carving.