Korean Ich Un Nong Butterfly Cabinet - Ca 1910 Chest This carved teak chariot panel

This carved teak chariot panel depicting Lord Rama is from an old temple chariot from Tamil Nadu in South India

Buddha is replaced

and an ironworker

Practical as well as decorative

Korean Ich Un Nong Butterfly Cabinet - Ca 1910 Chest This carved teak chariot panelThis compact, practical, and attractive Korean cabinet dates to circa 1910. This style of cabinet would have been owned by a relatively wealthy family and would have been used for storing seasonal clothes in the women's quarters of the home, specifically the women's inner room (anbang). This traditional form of cabinet is called ich'ung nong (two unit stacked clothing chest) and can be distinguished by the two identical stacking storage units on a