Robert Davis (working ca. 1733-d. 1739) is one of only two Boston japanners whose work decorating high chests is documented. William Randle (working 1715-1733), his father-in-law and one-time partner, is the other; his work is known through a William and Mary-style chest descended in the family of John and Abigail Adams. In his interpretation of these designs, Davis exhibited a fluent, lightly drawn style but employed fairly simplistic elements that are not skillfully related to each other. Davis' work incorporates a fanciful disregard for proportion and little integration with the flat background elements. This high chest of drawers features very upright cabriole legs with knee brackets formed by cutting a "C" on the inside of the knee itself and adding a small lobe which is glued to the case. The flat pad feet overhand the thick cylindrical disks on all sides. The front legs are angled following the point created by the junction of the case sides and front, the rear legs point to the side, and on this piece the foot has a medial ridge. This high chest also features "japanned" decoration, a type of finish originating as a European imitation of Asian lacquerwork. Overpainting was extensive in the nineteenth-century, and a nineteenth-century coat of black paint once obscured all but the raised figures.