Nineteenth-century British case furniture with doors, drawers or glazed fronts, made for showing china and curios, standing beside a bed, holding sheet music or a collection, or fitting out a shop.
Titles on Sellingantiques record a wide timber list: besides mahogany, walnut and oak, there's satinwood, amboyna, kingwood, pollard oak, satin birch, cedar, teak, yew and bamboo.