拍品专文
This cabinet, with its eclectic historical references, ebonized surfaces, and gilded mounts, embodies the Neo-Grec in America. The drawing room cabinet, introduced into New York by French-born cabinetmakers after the Civil War, was the most elaborate piece of furniture in late nineteenth-century America. These lavish cabinets, functioned more as pedestals for clocks, sculpture or other fine and decorative arts whose presence was to underline the wealth, status, and good taste of their owners.
Cabinets with similar characteristics are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum.
Cabinets with similar characteristics are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum.