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2. Display case - Wikipedia

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   A display case (also called a showcase, display cabinet, shadow box, or vitrine) is a cabinet with one or often more transparent tempered glass (or plastic, normally acrylic for strength) surfaces, used to display objects for viewing. A display case may appear in an exhibition, museum, retail store, restaurant, or house. Often, labels are ...

3. Vitrine (historic furniture) - Wikipedia

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   In French, a variety of display cases, such as a store sales table or the Perspex glass protecting a piece of ceramics in a museum display, can be referred to as a vitrine. Additionally, a large event which is designed to exhibit or showcase merchandise, a topic or theme, can also be referred to as a vitrine, such as a "vitrine d'excellence".

4. Kimbolton Cabinet - Wikipedia

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   Cabinets are box-shaped items of furniture which were usually designed with many cupboards and drawers, to store small objects. The Kimbolton Cabinet was designed as a display object in its own right, and as a mount for the pietra dura plaques. The front panels suggest doors, but they are false: the cabinet is empty inside, with just one door ...

5. Kimbel & Cabus - Wikipedia

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   Kimbel & Cabus display at the 1876 Centennial Exposition. Kimbel & Cabus was a Victorian-era furniture and decorative arts firm based in New York City. The partnership was formed in 1862 between German-born cabinetmaker Anthony Kimbel (c. 1821 –1895) [1] and French-born cabinetmaker Joseph Cabus (1824–1894).

6. Curio cabinet - Wikipedia

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   A curio cabinet with vases. Curio cabinets of Catharina, wife of Douwe Sirtema van Grovestins. A curio cabinet is a specialised type of display case, made predominantly of glass with a metal or wood framework, for presenting collections [1] of curios, like figurines or other interesting objects that invoke curiosity, and perhaps share a common theme.

7. Cabinet of curiosities - Wikipedia

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   The earliest pictorial record of a natural history cabinet is the engraving in Ferrante Imperato's Dell'Historia Naturale (Naples 1599) (illustration).It serves to authenticate its author's credibility as a source of natural history information, by showing his open bookcases (at the right), in which many volumes are stored lying down and stacked, in the medieval fashion, or with their spines ...