ATTRIBUTED TO ALEXANDER ROUX (W. NEW YORK CITY, 1837-1881), NEW YORK, CIRCA 1865

With its stylized open palmette sides and crossed animal form legs the stool offered here is typical of neo-classical forms, which are characterized by the use of geometric and Greek or Roman architectural ornamental elements. Though painted with a variable color scheme, the stool is virtually identical to one labeled by Alexander Roux in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (see The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nineteenth Century America: Furniture and Other Decorative Arts (New York, 1970), fig. 168.)

Microanalysis indicates the secondary wood is fagus (beech) in keeping with the Metropolitan Museum of Art's example.