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

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).