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Title: Mouri jang (chest with 3 drawers and central double doors and butterfly brass fittings)
Artist: Artist Unknown, Korea
Physical Description: This is a low pear wood storage chest, with three drawers and two doors. The butterfly and bat brass fittings for the hinges and drawer pulls add 'feminine' touches.
Century: mid-19th century
Object Creation Date: mid 19th century
Accession Number: 2004/1.311
Medium and Support: pear wood with brass fittings
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Title: Wedding Chest with Papered Front
Artist: Artist Unknown, Korea
Physical Description: A short, long wooden chest with a papered front. The metal fittings on the chest are vert dark, and the front latch is attached to the chest with a circular piece of metal, and the latch itself is a thin piece of metal placed vertically. A small metal handle is located below this. The wood is a dark red color, and the papered front depicts flowers, with the predominant color being yellow. Orange is also used in some of the flowers, and on the circular shapes spaced along the bottom of the image. The outlines of the flowers and other images are painted in black.
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: late 19th century
Accession Number: 2004/1.313
Medium and Support: wood with painted paper on front
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Title: Comb Chest (Jage Bitjeup)
Artist: Artist Unknown, Korea
Physical Description: This laquer comb chest with mother-of-pearl inlays has images of phoenixes and their babies, and deer on the top drawer, and tortoises and mandarin ducks on the bottom drawer, each in a pair. The handles are in the shape of bats.
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 2004/1.314
Medium and Support: wood with mother-of-pearl inlay
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Title: Namhae Chest
Artist: Artist Unknown, Korea
Physical Description: All parts of this chest, including the back, were made from solid zelkova planks, a luxury wood related to elm but with a more pronounced grain. This specimen has escaped aggressive cleaning with modern compounds and retains its original patina. The dovetail joints between the lower front panel and sides and the back and side panels are superbly wrought. The iron lock plate in the middle of the front is fashioned into an auspicious character, bok (good fortune). The rectangular iron hinges and square supporting corner brackets are fashioned into Buddhist swastika patterns. The four arms of each swastika radiate out from the center like the spokes of a wheel, symbolizing the rotation of the universe around the cosmic Buddha.
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: mid 19th century
Accession Number: 2009/2.90
Medium and Support: zelkova wood, iron fittings
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Title: Highboy (Tall-Boy)
Artist: Anonymous American
Physical Description: Four layers of drawers, four legs on the bottom, the chest sits on top of the four legs, in two separate pieces.
Object Creation Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 1955/1.230A&B
Medium and Support: mahogany and pine
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Title: Chest of Drawers
Artist: Norman Bel Geddes
Physical Description: Four-legged black chest of drawers in metal, with contrasting chrome-plated metal in the drawer handles and a thin strip outlining the facade.
Artist Life Dates: 1893-1958
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: designed 1928; produced 1929-1932
Accession Number: 2012/1.293
Medium and Support: enameled steel, chrome-plated metal, brass and wood
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