17TH CENTURY

Two types of clothes or storage chests are described in the classic Ming dynasty carpenter's manual Lu Ban jing; the yixiang and the yilong, although there is not much difference between the two aside from their size. For a discussion of these chests and an example in huanghuali, see Robert D. Jacobsen and Nicholas Grindley, Classical Chinese Furniture in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 1999, pp. 190-91, no. 69, where the Minneapolis example is also dated to the 17th century.