BY FRANÇOIS LINKE, INDEX NUMBER 114, PARIS, CIRCA 1900

Details

A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY TABLE DE MILIEU
BY FRANÇOIS LINKE, INDEX NUMBER 114, PARIS, CIRCA 1900
The lobed rectangular top inset with fleur de pêcher marble and with ormolu border chased with feathers and darts, with a frieze drawer to centred by a medallion chased with putti at play, on ormolu legs cast with female terms and joined by a interlaced stretcher centred by an ormolu basket, signed 'F. Linke'
29 ½ in. (75 cm.) high; 31 ¼ in. (79.5 cm.) wide; 21 in. (53.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 3 July 1969, lot 93.

Literature

C. Payne, François Linke, 1855-1946 - The Belle Epoque of French Furniture, Woodbridge, 2003, p. 125

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Lot Essay

Exhibiting the finest cabinetmaking of the belle époque, this table de milieu is inspired by the production of Adam Weisweiler working a century earlier. Payne notes that François Linke first made this model circa 1891 under index number 114. Like the present lot, the first examples had fleur de pêcher marble tops and one was made with a fall front secrétaire drawer (ibid, p. 125). An example of this table, also with a fleur de pêcher marble top, sold A Private Collection: Volume II, Sotheby's, New York, 19 April 2007, lot 151 ($72,000).

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