“Looks like” ….. Federal, Empire or transitional “style” …… makes no difference, the majority of all “no-name” cabinetmakers made furniture to suit their “taste” or the “taste” of the person they were making it for.
The wife’s grandfather was a “no-name” cabinetmakers, furnituremaker, casketmaker, etc., who cut his own timber, sawed his own lumber and produced “requested” items for his customers for many, many years ……. and I don’t think he gave a “hoot” about copying or conforming exactly to any “style” of any particular period like those “noted” cabinetmakers who produced items “for sale” to the mass market.
Now Zoltan’s chest-of-drawers is a pretty thing but it looks to me like it was recently refinished. The larger ”top” drawer protruding out farther than the lower drawers, the “keyholes” and the 4-quarter drawer fronts are “clues” to its age of construction. And the use of three (3) different boards between the two upper drawers makes me think it is “one-of-a-kind”. As does the 3-quarter top board that looks like it might be cherry.
But the one (1) thing that really bothers me about it being an “original” period piece is that it has “no legs”.
