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AN AMERICAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH, EBONY, EBONISED AND MARQUETRY MEUBLE HAUTEUR D'APPUI
Lot 81

AN AMERICAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH, EBONY, EBONISED AND MARQUETRY MEUBLE HAUTEUR D'APPUI

ATTRIBUTED TO ALEXANDER ROUX, NEW YORK, THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Closed14 March 2013

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AN AMERICAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH, EBONY, EBONISED AND MARQUETRY MEUBLE HAUTEUR D'APPUI
ATTRIBUTED TO ALEXANDER ROUX, NEW YORK, THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The rectangular cornice above a shaped pedestal inlaid with floral panels and flanked to each side by a dragon, the lower section with an arched door centred by a ribbon-hung painted porcelain plaque of a flamingo, enclosing three adjustable satinwood shelves, flanked to each side by a cupboard door inlaid with a flower-filled basket, enclosing two adjustable shelves, divided by espagnolette-headed pilasters, the sides conformingly-inlaid, on a shaped plinth base
56 in. (142.5 cm.) high; 90½ in. (230 cm.) wide; 19 in. (48 cm.) deep

Specialist note

Alexander Roux was a French-born cabinetmaker active in New York from 1836 to 1881. The present cabinet, in the form of an Italian Renaissance credenza and adorned with a ribbon-tied plaque, is from Roux's Neo-grec period. From the 1860s, his work turned away from the Rococo Revival style and incorporated an eclectic combination of motifs from antiquity, the Renaissance and the Louis XVI style. Closely related cabinets by Roux are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute.