A LOUIS XV STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, KINGWOOD AND MARQUETRY BUREAU DE DAME

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A LOUIS XV STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, KINGWOOD AND MARQUETRY BUREAU DE DAME
LATE 19TH CENTURY, BY FRANÇOIS LINKE

With a serpentine rectangular ormolu-moulded top above a conforming shaped bombé frieze fitted with a drawer and applied with finely cast armorial trophy cast with C- and S-scrolling tracery and a female mask, on cabriole legs with scrolling sabots and mounted at the knees with foliate cast C-scrolls, inscribed 'F.Linke'
29¼in. (74.3cm.) high, 32in. (81.3cm.) wide, 18¼in. (46.4cm.) deep

Lot Essay

François Linke was born in Austria in 1855 and died in Paris in 1946. He is recorded as working independently by 1882 at 170 Faubourg Saint-Antoine, the heart of the Paris furniture trade. Establishing his success as ébèniste at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1890, he acquired showrooms in the prestigious Place de Vendôme. He is most noted, however, for his display in the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900, where he introduced his finest interpretations of Louis XV/XVI furniture (See D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Mobilier Français du XIXe siècle, 1984, pp. 439-443).