Continental 4 drawer mahogany Chippendale bow front chest with graduated drawers, pullout writing surface and having original bracket base and original pulls. The top with banded inlay around perimeter and the drawers with a smaller banded inlay around perimeters. Condition - top with expansion crack and loss in one corner, some banded veneer losses, the velvet lining on the pullout writing surface with losses, otherwise good structural condition. Probably late 18th century. Measures 37 1/4"W x 24"D x 33"H. Provenance: This item was handed down to consignor's wife from either the Stotesbury family of Philadelphia - builder and part owner of JP Morgan in the 19th/20th century, or the Minturn families of NY - the consignor's wife's great great uncle was Col. Robert Shaw (the film "Glory") and her great great grandmother was Susanna Shaw Minturn (1839 - 1926) who gifted the land to NY that became part of Central Park. The Minturn family also owned the clipper ship "The Flying Cloud" and were leading merchants in NY City in the 19th/20th centuries.