A dressing-table slide is incorporated in the cornice of this chest-of-drawers, which is embellished in the George II French 'picturesque' fashion popularised by Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754. Its 'French' cut and ribbon-fretted pilasters terminating in serpentined 'truss' feet, and its ormolu handle-plates comprising shell-scalloped and foliated cartouches relate to Chippendale's patterns for 'Chest of Drawers' (pl. 85) and the 'commode' section of one of his 'Clothes Press' patterns (pl. 103).
A related chest-of-drawers was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 10 November 1995, lot 54.