Étagère Shelves

Étagère Shelves

Alexander Roux

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This Rococo Revival étagère has been dated on the basis of the label, which gives the address of Alexander Roux's shop as of 1850, when he moved into 481 Broadway. In 1857 he changed the firm's name to Roux and Company. Tables with virtually identical bases are owned by the Museum of The City of New York and the Thomas Gibbons house in Madison, New Jersey (now part of Drew University).

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.