Attributed to the William Jones shop, circa 1790, white pine secondary, solid top with molded edge and canted corners, four conforming drawers carved from the solid with applied cock beading, full dust boards, the stile with inlaid burl wood panel and light wood string border, applied molding at base, four distinctive conforming bracket feet with comma.

40 x 43 x 23.5 in., case width 40 in.

A wood identification report from Alden Identification Service accompanies this Lot.

Deaccessioned from Historic Hope Foundation, Windsor, North Carolina

Accession number HOPE GAEW 90.2.22

For a similar example see MESDA S-1163, which has similar configurations of the serpentine case, canted corners and bracket feet with comma.
Literature: The Furniture of Charleston 1680-1820, Volume II: Neoclassical Furniture, Bradford L. Rauschenberg, John Bivins, Jr., 485-492, fig. NC-16.

Top with wear and staining; left and right front corners with tight shrinkage crack; some cock beading repair at drawers; later pulls with plug holes; some drawer runners rebuilt; all four feet appear original, minor repair blocking to the front right foot.