[1] Chippendale's rococo style is readily visible in this high chest, with its scroll pediment, flame finials, and shell motifs on the drawers.

This is a more constrained and conservative stylistic choice than many other high chests, hinting at an earlier dating within the period.

While quite popular on both sides of the Atlantic, the tensions in the years around the Revolutionary War forced Americans to buy locally.

Thus, its furniture makers were kept busy crafting pieces such as this, adapting the Chippendale styles demanded by cosmopolitan customers to American tastes and materials.

[1] The high chest of drawers was a gift of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Indiana to the IMA in 1975.