Lot 314
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A LOUIS XV STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, KINGWOOD AND MARQUETRY BUREAU PLAT

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

With serpentine rectangular ormolu-moulded top inlaid with a bouquet above a conforming shaped frieze fitted with two drawers and applied with finely chased interlacing flowering branches, on cabriole legs with scrolling sabots applied at the knees with flowerfilled cornucopia--29in. (73.6cm.) high, 36in. (91.4cm.) wide, 24¼in. (61.5cm.) deep

Lot Essay

François Linke was born in Austria in 1855 and died in Paris in 1946. He is recorded as working independantly by 1882 at 170 Fauborg Saint-Antoine, the heart of the Paris furniture trade. After his success was established at the Paris Exposition universelle of 1890, he acquired showrooms in the prestigious place Vendôme. D. Ledoux-Lebards, Les Ebénistes du XIXe Siècle, 1985, pp.439-444.