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This serpentine front chest of drawers of cherry wood and mahogany descended in the Searls family of Pomfret, Conn. Its imaginative stylistic details and inlays link it to central Massachusetts craftsman Nathan Lombard, who is also thought to have made five related chests. Ebenezer Howard, a Sturbridge, Mass., craftsman who worked for Lombard, signed the chest, which sold to G.W. Samaha for $872,500. The chest fetched $365,500 when it came up at Skinner in Bolton, Mass., in 1999.---Antiques and Art Online