PROBABLY ALEXANDER ROUX (ACTIVE 1836-1880), NEW YORK, CIRCA 1865-1875

This cabinet is distinguished by its elaborate and naturalistic inlay and colorful Neo-Egyptian porcelain plaques. Though it lacks Roux's mark or label, it features the marquetry panels and ormolu mounts frequently found on Roux's cabinets and relates closely to two stamped examples, one in the collection of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute (illustrated in Anna Tobin D'Ambrosio, Masterpieces of American Furniture from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute [Utica, 1999], pp. 106-107) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (illustrated in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 19th-Century America: Furniture and Other Decorative Arts (New York, 1970), cat. no. 164).