CAST AFTER A DESIGN BY LEON MESSAGE, PROBABLY FOR FRANCOIS LINKE, CIRCA 1900

Also referred to by Linke as 'Amour guerrier', the mount was used on several important pieces of furniture, including the four-sided vitrine shown at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair (see Christie's East, 31 October 2000, lot 444). For an example mounted on a table stretcher, see C. Payne, François Linke 1855-1946, The Belle Epoque of French Furniture, Woodbridge, 2003, p. 337, pl. 365. Another similar example sold Sotheby's New York, 30 October 2003, lot 217.