Live Auction 761419th Century Furniture, Sculpture, Works of Art and Ceramics
A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY OCCASIONAL TABLE
Lot 123

A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY OCCASIONAL TABLE

BY FRANÇOIS LINKE, INDEX NUMBER 257, PARIS, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Closed24 September 2008

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY OCCASIONAL TABLE
BY FRANÇOIS LINKE, INDEX NUMBER 257, PARIS, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
The waived-square top with two scallop-shell handles above a serpentine frieze set to one side with a button-release drawer and to the other with a slide, on tapering cabriole legs headed by foliate clasps and terminating in acanthus-scroll sabots, one clasp signed F. Linke
28½ in. (72.5 cm.) high; 13¼ in. (34 cm.) square

Specialist note

Two variant examples of this table by Linke sans tablettes, or lower shelves, are illustrated in C. Payne, François Linke 1855-1946: The Belle Epoque of French Furniture, Woodbridge, 2003, p. 66, pl. 58.

Please see lot 103 for a note on François Linke.