A Louis XVI style ormolu and jasperware-mounted mahogany commode a vantaux

AFTER THE MODEL BY JOSEPH STÖCKEL AND GUILLAUME BENEMAN, BY FRANÇOIS LINKE, PARIS, CIRCA 1920

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A Louis XVI style ormolu and jasperware-mounted mahogany commode a vantaux
After the model by Joseph Stöckel and Guillaume Beneman, By François Linke, Paris, Circa 1920
Decorated overall with scrolling foliage, the eared rectangular brèche violette marble top above three frieze drawers centred by a lion mask, over a pair of doors with a semi-elliptical panel centred by a ribbon-tied roundel framing a jasperware plaque of Cupid and Vestal Virgins, the interior with six mahogany drawers, flanked by fluted columnar uprights with stiff-leaf acanthus capitals, each side with a bronze relief medallion depicting a piping shepherd and shepherdess tending a lamb, on tapering frond-cast legs and fir-cone feet, one door set with a plate engraved Linke, the carcass top stamped at each front corner F. LINKE, the drawer lock engraved CT LINKE/PARIS
37½in. (95.3cm.) high; 72in. (182.9cm.) wide; 29in. (73.8cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The design of the present commode relates closely to that of a pair adapted by Guillaume Benneman from a model by Joseph Stöckel supplied to Marie-Antoinette in 1786 for the Salon des Jeux at Fontainebleau.

Copied in widely varying degrees of quality throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the present example of Stöckel and Benneman's model exhibits the high level of execution and finish associated with Linke's finest pieces.

See lot 378 for a further note on François Linke.

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