Lot 71
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A Louis XVI style ormolu and patinated bronze amboyna low centre-table
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A Louis XVI style ormolu and patinated bronze amboyna low centre-table

AFTER THE FONTAINEBLEAU MODEL, BY FRANÇOIS LINKE, NO. 1390, PARIS, CIRCA 1910

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A Louis XVI style ormolu and patinated bronze amboyna low centre-table
After the Fontainebleau model, By François Linke, No. 1390, Paris, Circa 1910
The circular top set within a palmette rim, supported on four winged caryatids terminating in paw feet, above a concave-sided base centred by a Samson blue porcelain urn on spreading octagonal foot, signed F. Linke above one caryatid
25½ in. (65 cm.) high; 40¼ in. (102 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's London, 27 May 1994, lot 201
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Lot Essay

Linke acquired a model of the present guéridon at the vente Millet held in 1905. Two years later, he produced his first copy, listed as no. 1390, and complete with a porcelain vase imitating porphyry. The model proved popular and Payne records Linke making a total of at least eight further tables, each with a blue porcelain vase supplied by Samson. The present table is of a lower form than the typical model, which Payne notes is not mentioned in Linke's registre (see Payne, op. cit., p, 208, pl. 228).

Please see lot 128 for a further note on François Linke.

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