This exceptional serpentine chest of drawers relates very closely to one from the celebrated Blackwell collection, which was most recently sold at Christie’s London, Thomas Chippendale – 300 Years, 5 July 2018, lot 13 (price achieved £137,500), and a further example in the collections at Dumfries House.  The pattern of handle and escutcheon is typical of Chippendale’s documented furniture as seen on a mahogany serpentine chest of drawers dated 1774 supplied to Ninian Home at Paxton, and another in the dressing room of Lady St. Oswald’s bedroom at Nostell Priory, Yorkshire.