Lot Essay
See lot 378 for a note on François Linke.
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BY FRANÇOIS LINKE, PARIS, CIRCA 1910
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A Regence style ormolu-mounted kingwood and parquetry bureau plat
By François Linke, Paris, Circa 1910
The serpentine-shaped ormolu-moulded top set with a gilt-tooled black leather writing surface, above a conforming trellis parquetry frieze with an inset central drawer and flanking short drawers, the reverse with similar false drawers, each side centred with a Bacchic mask beneath a sliding writing surface, on cabriole legs headed by satyr masks and tapering to paw feet, the right corner moulding inscribed F. LINKE, the locks engraved to the reverse CT LINKE/SERRURERIE/PARIS
30in. (76cm.) high; 65½in. (166.5cm.) wide; 36in. (91.5cm.) deep
By François Linke, Paris, Circa 1910
The serpentine-shaped ormolu-moulded top set with a gilt-tooled black leather writing surface, above a conforming trellis parquetry frieze with an inset central drawer and flanking short drawers, the reverse with similar false drawers, each side centred with a Bacchic mask beneath a sliding writing surface, on cabriole legs headed by satyr masks and tapering to paw feet, the right corner moulding inscribed F. LINKE, the locks engraved to the reverse CT LINKE/SERRURERIE/PARIS
30in. (76cm.) high; 65½in. (166.5cm.) wide; 36in. (91.5cm.) deep