surmounted by a fleur de pêcher marble top, the central cupboard opening to three shelves and six vertical filing compartments, flanked by two cupboards each opening to three shelves

Marble top with a restored corner. Small chips to edges and some areas of infill. Gilt bronze with oxidation. Surface dirt and rubbing. Mounts appear to be lacquered. Veneers with age cracks and losses, largest being a thin 5 inch loss directly underneath the marble to the upper right hand corner. Some discoloration to veneers due to polish. Some surface restorations. Both sides with age cracks running vertically along joins of construction. Usual scratches, nicks, and abrasions.
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The style of this cabinet is closely related to those produced in the Paris furniture making trade of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine in the 1880s. There are similarities betweem this firm and the firm of Roux et Brunet, some of whose mounts were designed by Léon Messagé and later used by François Linke.

Roux et Brunet (active late 19^th century). Although Frédéric Roux had a long career as cabinet maker and marqueteur from 1839 onwards, he went in partnership with Brunet in 1889 at 20, rue de la Pèrle. Frédéric and his brother Alexandre, the later based in New York after 1836, were both highly successful cabinet makers. Frédéric joined his brother in New York for two years in 1847-48, where they worked together under the name of A. and F. Brunet. He returned soon after to Paris, and bought the celebrated workshop of Hippolyte Hedmé Pretot following his death (1855). At the 1867 Paris Exposition Universelle, he exhibited a large Boulle style center table raised on eight supports that Emꦫperor Napol&eac🌃ute;on II purchased for the Palais de L’ Elysée. The table is now in the Musée National du Château de Versailles.