This pine chest of two small drawers over three long graduated drawers is painted with an ebullient decorative design. It has constructional features which indicate that it was made in the North East tradition of Yorkshire or County Durham, where chests of drawers made for artisans or miners' homes were commonly made to sit on a separate base frame with either turned or bracket feet, in the manner of this chest. Chests of drawers from this region have a further regional characteristic in having drawers which were made as open topped boxes which the purchaser could have customised by choosing drawer fronts which would be glued to the basic drawers in either pine, mahogany or stained birch, either in solid wood or veneered, to match the choice of carcase finish. Careful examination of the drawers of this chest will show that this is the constructional device used in this case.

In a tradition where mahogany or mahogany-stained birch were the common options, this chest represents a rare example of a pine chest finished in a strikingly decorative manner.