PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE FAMILY COLLECTION (lots 414-426)

A Louis XV style ormolu-mounted kingwood, mahogany, marquetry and parquetry 'butterfly' lady's vanity table

BY FRANÇOIS LINKE, INDEX NUMBER 673, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A Louis XV style ormolu-mounted kingwood, mahogany, marquetry and parquetry 'butterfly' lady's vanity table
By François Linke, Index number 673, Early 20th Century
The kidney-shaped top with three hinged sections edged with meandering and flowering foliage, decorated with sunburst parquetry and inlaid with trailing foliage, the two side sections sliding open to reveal a retractable storage space with drop front, the third section lifting to a bevelled mirrored reverse, on chandrelled supports joined by a conforming galleried undertier, on cabriole legs with scrolled sabots, the lock-plate bearing the inscription henry Dasson et Cie 1890, the reverse stamped CT. LINKE/SERRURERIE/PARIS and numbered 673, a mount inscribed to the underside 0783
30 in. (76.2 cm.) high; 24½ in. (62.2 cm.) wide; 16 1/8 in. (41 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

An example of this model can be seen in a photograph of the Meyer residence at 16 Grosvenor Square, London (see C. Payne, François Linke 1855-1946, The Belle Epoque of French Furniture, Woodbridge, 2003, p. 246, plate 261). See ibid p. 248, plate 264, for a watercolour rendering of the model

For a note on Linke, please see lot 316. For a closely related table, also by Linke, see lot 315.

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