A French ormolu-mounted kingwood and tulipwood centre table

BY FRANCOIS LINKE, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A French ormolu-mounted kingwood and tulipwood centre table
By Francois Linke, Late 19th Century
With serpentine-shaped grey and yellow marble top, above a frieze drawer centred by a female mask cartouche, the reverse with an apparent drawer, the sides each centred by a foliate-cast cartouche, on square shaped scrolled legs, each headed by a caryatid clasp, joined by a shaped stretcher centred with a flaming urn finial, on foliate-cast scrolled sabots, signed F. Linke to the right hand clasp, the marble top with two corners repaired
55½ in. (141 cm.) wide; 30 in. (76 cm.) high; 31½ in. (80 cm.) deep

拍品專文

François Linke, possibly the highest regarded late 19th Century cabinet maker had established workshops at 170 Faubourg Saint Antoine in the 1880s, later moving to 26 Place Vendôme around 1900.

Linke's craftmanship was perhaps the best in Paris in the latter part of the 19th Century and every element of his cabinet- and metal-work is the finest.

A related bureau plat by Linke with the same espagnolettes is illustrated in C. Payne, 19th century European Furniture, Woodbridge, 1981, p. 104.