China Cabinets

China Cabinets are tall furniture pieces with glass-fronted upper shelves used to display porcelain, and the posts here are from a furniture and antiques angle rather than from China itself. Articles look at the Chippendale, Queen Anne and Hepplewhite styles common in American homes from the eighteenth century onward, the difference between a corner cabinet and a breakfront, glass shelf safety for heavy stoneware, and how to value an inherited cabinet. There are also notes on lighted versus unlighted interiors and on why solid mahogany pieces are increasingly hard to find.