Lot 183
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A Louis XVI style, ormolu-mounted mahogany, marquetry and parquetry bureau a cylindre
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A Louis XVI style, ormolu-mounted mahogany, marquetry and parquetry bureau a cylindre

AFTER THE MODEL BY JEAN-HENRI RIESENER, BY FRANÇOIS LINKE, MODEL NUMBER 100, PARIS, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Details
A Louis XVI style, ormolu-mounted mahogany, marquetry and parquetry bureau a cylindre
After the model by Jean-Henri Riesener, By François Linke, Model number 100, Paris, Late 19th/early 20th Century
Inlaid overall with lozenge-parquetry, the top with pierced three-quarter gallery, the roll-top inlaid with an oval musical trophy within ribbon-tied floral surround, opening to reveal sixteen pigeon-holes, a compartment and a mechanically retracting gilt-tooled black leather writing surface, above a central concealed frieze drawer with cloudborne-putti plaque, flanked to each side by a drawer with flower-filled basket and scrolling foliate handles, the reverse of each lockplate stamped CT LINKE/SERRURERIE/PARIS and numbered 100, the sides with plaques emblematic of the Arts, on square tapering legs and acanthus-cast feet
43½ in. (110.5 cm.) high; 42¼ in. (107 cm.) wide; 24¾ in. (62.5 cm.) deep
Literature
C. Payne, François Linke, 1855-1946 - The Belle Epoque of French Furniture, Woodbridge, 2003.
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

This secrétaire à cylindre in the Louis XVI style, is a variant of the bureau with mother-of-pearl trellis marquetry made by Riesener for Marie-Antoinette's boudoir at Fontainebleau in 1786. The 'poetic' trophy was, no doubt, inspired by the ormolu medallion accompanying a tablet of festive putti, on Marie-Antoinette's secrétaire à abattant, also by Riesener, in the Prince Demidoff Collection, sold San Donato, 22 March 1870, lot 282.
For a note on François Linke, please see lot 53.

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