A George I walnut and feather-banded bowfront chest circa 1720

of unusually small proportions, with a quarter-veneered moulded top above a slide and three small drawers, with three graduated drawers below, between fluted stiles, on bracket feet

This is in good condition. The top has old stains and slight characteristic undulations consistent with age. There are also some characteristic separations to the timbers. The handles have been replaced. Some minor repairs to veneers around the drawers. The colour is very attractive.
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A walnut chest of drawers of the same model, formerly in the collection of the distinguished furniture historian Percy Macquoid, is illustrated in Ralph Edwards and Percy Macquoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. ed., 3 vols, 1954, vol. II, p.41, fig. 33. For a further comparison see Sotheby`s London, 12th June 2002, lot 81.