The interior fitted with one shelf. Paper label.

A nearly identical cabinet by Alexander Roux is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

4ft. 6 x 6 ft. 1/2 x 18 1/2 in.

Note from the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Until the mid-1870s, furniture styles in America were largely influenced by European, particularly French, taste. Style was disseminated by European design books and fashion periodicals; the great international exhibitions, beginning with the London Crystal Palace in 1851; and immigrant craftsmen who adapted their skills and artistic traditions to the American market. Alexander Roux, a French-born cabinetmaker active in New York from 1836 to 1881, was an ever tasteful proponent of the latest fashion, working in the 1840s in the Gothic Revival style, in the 1850s in the Elizabethan, Renaissance, and Rococo styles, and in the 1860s, as here, in the Néo-grec style. Néo-grec was an inventive combination of motifs from antiquity, the Renaissance, and the late-eighteenth-century Louis XVI style introduced in France and popularized by Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III, during the Second Empire (1852–1870). The form of this cabinet is derived from the Italian Renaissance credenza, and its ornament, with delicate incising, gilt-metal mounts, rich marquetry panels, and porcelain plaques encircled by gilt-bronze ribbons, is an eclectic combination of Louis XVI and classical motifs. 

In good overall condition, with scattered nicks, minor age splits, and wear throughout. Small spots of verdigris patination and rubbing to the gilt-metal mounts. Without a key, and structurally sound. 

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