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If we didn't have "stuff" we wouldn't want chests and cupboards. Case furniture of which chests and cabinets are but a sub-set, have been around in China for hundreds of years. Some very innovative and superbly assembled cabinets were made during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Many of the styles first produced during those very early years of cabinet making are still being made now. - antique storage trunk... Early Chinese chests and cabinets were made of very fine woods, which are virtually extinct in China now. Principal among those wood kinds are Huanghuali and Zitan. Huanghuali is still grown in other parts of Asia, but the wood grain is slightly different from that used in the Ming era... Added designs of Chinese chests and cabinets were produced during years subsequent to Ming. Some were heavily ornamented; others retained the classical simplicity of furniture that is earlier. Cupboards ranged in size to much smaller chests readily managed by one man in the huge compound..