Veneered in a herring bone pattern. With shortgrain mouldings; and two oak lined drawers below. Mounted on square cabriole legs terminating in square pad feet. With two brass carrying handles – one on each side.

In ‘Early Georgian Furniture: 1715-1740’, Adam Bowett illustrates a chest on stand and a chest with drawers to show the various configurations which were introduced, commenting that: ‘[c]hests of this type are now relatively uncommon… On the whole surviving examples tend to be rather early (before c.1750).’ He continues: ‘[t]he antiques trade calls these hybrid chests ‘mule chests’, but this was not a contemporary term’ (Adam Bowett, ‘Early Georgian Furniture: 1715-1740’, Antique Collectors’ Club, 2009, p.97).