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), [...]