In the study, a massive collector's cabinet with dozens of tiny drawers displays the extensive rock collection once owned by John Howell, a dairyman who moved into the house with his new bride, Amelia, in 1875.

Such cabinets displayed a world that was almost overwhelmingly disordered and miscellaneous.

A cabinet displays old swords and pistols recovered from the sewers in earlier days.

Completed in 1476, the studiolo was the private study of the Duke of Urbino, and its cabinets display artifacts of the duke's interests, including architecture, science and music.

The cabinets now display items such as a model of George Cayley's original flying machine and an early steam car model by Sir Edward Harland.

The cabinet behind his office desk displays honorary degrees from American schools - one, I later learned, from an unaccredited correspondence school.

The nearest cabinet displayed national types - Turkman, Uzbek, Kalmuk, etc. - assembled with the sort of vacant gazes that typify group portraits.

Flamboyant Chinese rugs covered the polished floors, and the glass-fronted cabinets displayed a collection of delicate ceramic ware in the distinctive and colourful glazes of the Ming dynasty.

A glass-fronted cabinet displayed a collection of crib figures.

Back in the showroom reception, with its open-fronted cabinets displaying Emblem's complex products, its wide mahogany desk and array of exotic potted palms, they were discussing the planned project.