Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Furnishings (hierarchy name)
5. furnishings (works)
6. [furnishings by form or function]
7. furniture
8. [furniture by form or function]
9. [storage and display furniture]
10. case furniture
11. cupboards (case furniture)

Anotations

Scope note:

Large but fairly low cupboards with an enclosed storage cabinet above and an open shelf or shelves below, or having two or three shelves and no enclosed cabinet. It is a type made in 16th- and 17th-century England and 17th-century America. Distinct from "press cupboards," which have both the upper and lower sections enclosed.