A fine Louis XV style ormolu-mounted tulipwood vitrine

BY FRANÇOIS LINKE, PARIS, INDEX NUMBER 487, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A fine Louis XV style ormolu-mounted tulipwood vitrine
By François Linke, Paris, Index number 487, Late 19th/Early 20th Century
The shaped brèche violette marble top above a spreading cornice centred by foliate cresting, above an arched glazed door and sides applied to the top and bottom with scrolling foliage and floral pendants, the gold silk-lined interior fitted with three glass shelves, the angles applied with floral-cast clasps, on tapering legs terminating in scrolled acanthus-cast feet, the reverse of the lock stamped CT. LINKE/SERRURERIE/PARIS and numbered 487
78½ in. (199.2 cm.) high; 41 in. (104.2 cm.) wide; 17 in. (43.2 cm.) deep

拍品專文

The bronze patterns for this vitrine were produced in the late 1890s, and Linke used the model as the basis for a slightly larger enhanced version (index number 905), an example of which was exhibited at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle (see C. Payne, François Linke, 1855-1946, The Belle Epoque of French Furniture, Woodbridge, 2003, p. 151).

An example of the related vitrine (no. 905), with the addition of a gilt-bronze female mask, sold Christie's London, 24 February 2000 (£43,300).

For a note on Linke, please see lot 316.