LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY STANDS
LATE 19TH CENTURY
Each with Rouge Griotte marble top set within a pierced gallery, over a writing slide to one side and a spring-loaded drawer to another, the frieze cast with pierced foliage, on four tapering legs joined by a stretcher, one drawer stamped '3', the other '5'
31 ½ in. (80 cm.) high; 12 in. (30.5 cm.) wide; 12 in. (30.5 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

An almost identical stand, or selette, is illustrated in C. Payne, François Linke: The Belle Epoque of French Furniture, Woodbridge, 2003, p. 53, pl. 44. An early work titled by Linke ‘pedestal Louis XVI acajou et bronzes doré’. A single example sold A Private Collection Volume I; Sotheby’s, New York, 26 October 2006, lot 60 ($13,200).

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