Antique American Cupboard
CUPBOARDS: PRESS AND COURT CUPBOARDS
About 1670-1700
Oak court cupboard, 1670-1680.
0riginally, a cupboard was literally a Cup Board - an open, three•tiered side table for displaying silver cups. The earliest American examples date from after 1670 and are partly enclosed with panels and doors - cupboards in the modern sense - but clearly meant as [...]

CABINETS, CUPBOARDS AND ARMOIRES
17thC Flemish table cabinet veneered with tortoiseshell and inlaid with bone.
Interiors fitted with small drawers set around miniature cupboard. Doors, if any, panelled or flush. Stands constructed either as cupboards or, more usually, as table-frames; but many cabinets exported from Florence, Antwerp and Augsburg without stands, which were made later at destination.
Cupboards: [...]

EUROPEAN CUPBOARDS AND ARMOIRES About 1725-1775
French provincial armoire made in restrained rococo style.
Cupboards: In France, heavy Louis XIV types gradually give way to lighter rococo style. Doors of armoires have shaped panels matching boiserie (wall panelling); some feature in buffet-bas (sideboard with cupboards and drawers), buffet- vaisselier or dressoir (buffet with rack of shelves above), [...]

CLOTHES PRESSES AND WARDROBES
Not strictly a press, but this cabinet on chest shows the early stages of evolution. Typical features of the walnut period include quartering of veneers and lip mouldings on the drawer edges.1720-1740
Assuming it is right and not a bottom half with cabinet, and depending on the interior fitting.
A later walnut bookcase [...]

EARLY ANTIQUE EUROPEAN CUPBOARDS AND ARMOIRES
About 1300-1630
Vertical storage or display pieces with doors, as distinct from chests with lids, made from early Middle Ages onwards.
Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic: Early surviving examples; armoire about 1176, arched doors and ends (Abbey Church of St Etienne, Obazine); sacristy cupboard, about 1200, massive plank construction, painted over coating of gesso [...]

French Cupboards
A walnut cross-banded glazed-door antique French cupboard of c.1725, with broken pediment. It has been suggested that such cupboards became popular at the time to store and display the expensive tea sets then in vogue.
The figure of the walnut veneers is elegantly matched and the moulding on the cornice is gross-grained.
Quality of decoration and [...]