Parlor Display Cabinet

Hello.  I just purchased this cabinet at an antique store.  They thought it was a sideboard for the dining room.  After doing some of my own research, I believe it is a parlor display cabinet.  It has slots for sheet music behind the center door.  It has a step top, and I think it may be constructed of rosewood.  The dovetails are hand cut on the drawers.  It is a very beautiful cabinet and any information anyone could give me would be greatly appreciated.  The back of the cabinet is made of paneled wood.  Could this be possibly by Herter Bros.?  Could anyone answer please!
Thanks.  Meissenmerrill

The Herter Brothers both died before this cabinet was made, though their company continued through 1905.  There is very little chance this is Herter and I think it was made around the turn of the century.

Thanks for the information.  There is a cabinet in the Metropolitan Museum that has a similar form that has been attributed to Herter. I think this cabinet is more attractive.

Your cabinet is indeed a parlor cabinet--but it is, to my eye "Chippendale" in style, and represents the huge market in upper-middle-class elegance that American furniture factories were producing early in the 20th century.  I'd date your piece from 1895-1910. I'd also suggest that it is mahogany, given the color and the lack of obvious striped grain.  The music sheet cupboard you mentions suggests that it might even have had an early Edison or RCA Victor record player on the top, in the center position--with its great trumpet-shaped sound bell. It is the logical descendant of the parlor cabinet, and the glass-fronted parlor vitrines that were focal points of parlors from the 1860s onward!

Thanks for the expert info.  I bought the cabinet because it had chinese chippendale tendencies.  My house is mostly that style. :)