BY FRANÇOIS LINKE, PARIS, CIRCA 1900

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY BEDROOM SUITE
BY FRANÇOIS LINKE, PARIS, CIRCA 1900
Comprising a commode with dressing mirror with brèche d'Alep marble top and lockplate signed 'CT / LINKE', a bedstead, a cheval mirror and a bedside cabinet
The commode with dressing mirror: 78 ½ in. (199.5 cm.) high, overall; 36 in. (91.5 cm.) high, the commode; 56 ¼ in. (143 cm.) wide; 23 ¾ in. (60.5 cm.) deep
The bedstead: 61 in. (155 cm.) high; 67 ½ in. (172 cm.) wide; 82 in. (209 cm.) deep
The cheval mirror: 78 ½ in. (200 cm.) high; 35 ½ in. (90 cm.) wide; 22 in. (56 cm.) deep
The bedside cabinet: 33 ½ in. (85 cm.) high; 19 in. (48.5 cm.) wide; 15 in. (28 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

This important bedroom suite is centred around a commode coiffeuse, index number 286 in the Linke archives and titled 'commode acajou surmountée d’une psyche Louis XV’. The commode was made either with or without a swing mirror in two sizes: this being an example of the larger. Another apparently identical is in collection of the Mariner’s Museum, Newport, Virginia and another with matching bed are illustrated in a period photograph of the bedroom of the Arabella Huntington townhouse in New York, now rebuilt as Tiffany’s on 5th Avenue (see C. Payne, François Linke, 1855-1946 - The Belle Epoque of French Furniture, Woodbridge, 2003, pl. 249 p. 231).

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