Lot 184
184
AN ORMOLU AND BRONZE-MOUNTED AMBOYNA CENTRE TABLE, by François Linke, of Louis XVI design, the circular segmentally-veneered top with stiff-leaf edge and plain frieze, on four panelled supports headed by winged mermaids, the supports with paw feet, on a concave-sided canted rectangular platform base centred by a circular platform, engraved F. Linke, late 19th 20th Century

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AN ORMOLU AND BRONZE-MOUNTED AMBOYNA CENTRE TABLE, by François Linke, of Louis XVI design, the circular segmentally-veneered top with stiff-leaf edge and plain frieze, on four panelled supports headed by winged mermaids, the supports with paw feet, on a concave-sided canted rectangular platform base centred by a circular platform, engraved F. Linke, late 19th 20th Century

39in. (99cm.) diam.; 31½in. (80cm.) high;

Lot Essay

This model of table, inspired by a late 18th Century table at Fontainebleau, relates to one bearing the mark of T. Millet (d.c.1918). (see D. Ledoux-Lebard, Les Ebenistes du XIX Siecle, Paris, 1984 p.484). François Linke's (1855-1946) principal establishment was in rue Saint-Antoine.
Another table of this model was sold anonymously, in these rooms, 10th December 1992, lot 130.

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