Modern Gothic exhibition cabinet (c. 1877–1880) is a piece of Modern Gothic furniture now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Although its design was once attributed to Philadelphia architect Frank Furness and furniture maker Daniel Pabst, MMA now credits its design and manufacture to Pabst alone. At 8 feet (2.4 m) tall, it is an unusually large and polychromatic American example of the rare style.

Modern Gothic (also called Reformed Gothic) was an important Aesthetic Movement style that began in England about 1860, and lasted some twenty years. Unlike the Gothic Revival, it sought not to copy Gothic designs, but to adapt them, abstract them, and apply them to new forms. Its parting zenith was the English and American furniture exhibited at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.

The cabinet is made of walnut and maple, with poplar and white pine secondary woods. It features a shingled "roof," ebonized and banded compressed columns, and carved and incised decoration throughout. Its two sets of doors are separated by a highly carved drawer front. Its eight inset panels – four on the doors of the front, and a pair on each of the sides – are of veneered maple, cameo-carved to reveal the darker walnut beneath. Its strap hinges and hardware are of brass, and the locks on its doors are stamped "PAT. SEP. 29 '74." The cabinet's shelf features three reverse-painted ribbed-glass tiles backed with gold foil.

The cabinet is unsigned. Pabst's shop employed dozens of woodworkers, and presumably produced thousands of pieces over half a century. Only two of his pieces are signed and very few are documented, therefore identification of his works must be done through attribution.

The design is reminiscent of Furness's Philadelphia bank buildings, especially the forward-thrusting central pavilion of his 1879 Provident Life & Trust Company (image below). Furness used similar reverse-painted ribbed-glass tiles backed with reflective foil on the facade of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1871–1876), designed with then-partner George Hewitt; on his Brazilian Pavilion at the 1876 Centennial Exposition, and on his Centennial National Bank (1876).

These buildings may have influenced Pabst, who executed Furness-designed Modern Gothic furniture for PAFA, but the most direct influence for the cabinet seems to have been British designer Bruce James Talbert. Talbert's Gothic Forms Applied to Furniture, Metal Work and Decoration for Domestic Purposes was published in Boston in 1873. The Pabst cabinet's "roof," columns, and corbels are closely related to a wall cupboard in Talbert's book, plate 12 (image below); and the cameo-carved panels of its upper doors are copied directly from the doors of a cabinet in Talbert's book, plate 20 (image below).

Pabst used a cameo-carved panel and reverse-painted ribbed-glass tiles on an earlier Modern Gothic cabinet, now at the Brooklyn Museum (image below). Originally, this seems to have been the center section of a larger piece, with an attached bookcase on either side.

Antique furniture dealer Robert Edwards purchased the exhibition cabinet in 1985, from the estate of Granville H. Triplett of Catonsville, Maryland. Edwards was an expert on American Aesthetic Movement and Arts and Crafts Movement designers, especially those from Philadelphia, and sold the piece to MMA that same year. The MMA attributed the cabinet's design to Furness and its manufacture to Pabst, dated it "about 1876" (partially based on its reverse-painted ribbed-glass tiles), and said Furness and Pabst collaborated to produce some of "the finest examples of the Modern Gothic style in America."