AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND PARQUETRY BUREAU PLAT, by François Linke, the serpentine top inset with tooled red leather skiver and banded with a gilt-metal moulded edge inscribed to one corner F. Linke, the wavy freize centred by a female mask head within a foliate scroll surround and flanked to each side by a small drawer with a shaped leaf-cast handle, the reverse with apparent drawers, the sides centred by a shell within foliate borders, on cabriole legs, headed by espagnolettes, on acanthus-cast hairy claw sabots, late 19th/early 20th century

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AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND PARQUETRY BUREAU PLAT, by François Linke, the serpentine top inset with tooled red leather skiver and banded with a gilt-metal moulded edge inscribed to one corner F. Linke, the wavy freize centred by a female mask head within a foliate scroll surround and flanked to each side by a small drawer with a shaped leaf-cast handle, the reverse with apparent drawers, the sides centred by a shell within foliate borders, on cabriole legs, headed by espagnolettes, on acanthus-cast hairy claw sabots, late 19th/early 20th century
56¼in. (143cm.) wide; 30in. (76cm.) high; 33½in. (77.5cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The design of this trellis-inlaid and ormolu-enriched desk with its serpentined frame embellished with nymphs and bacchic lion-feet emerging from acanthus foliage, in the Louis XV picturesque manner, relates to the celebrated bureau by Charles Cressent (d. 1768) in the Residenz, Munich. François Linke (d. 1946), cabinet-maker and interior decorator established his gallery in the Faubourg St. Antoine in 1882.

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