Korean Ich Un Nong Butterfly Cabinet - Ca 1910 Chest adding both visual interest and

adding both visual interest and practical function

The script is the name of the head of the house

These chests were made in Surat in Gujarat by Parsees and used as dhow trade chests on ships for transporting spices like pepper and cloves

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Korean Ich Un Nong Butterfly Cabinet - Ca 1910 Chest adding both visual interest andThis compact, practical, and attractive Korean cabinet dates to circa 1910. This style of cabinet would have been owned by a relatively wealthy family and would have been used for storing seasonal clothes in the women's quarters of the home, specifically the women's inner room (anbang). This traditional form of cabinet is called ich'ung nong (two unit stacked clothing chest) and can be distinguished by the two identical stacking storage units on a