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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND SATINE PARQUETRY TEA-TABLE
Lot 61 PROPERTY FROM AN EAST COAST PRIVATE COLLECTION (LOT 61)

A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND SATINE PARQUETRY TEA-TABLE

BY FRANCOIS LINKE, INDEX NUMBER 610, PARIS, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Closed20 October 2011

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND SATINE PARQUETRY TEA-TABLE
BY FRANCOIS LINKE, INDEX NUMBER 610, PARIS, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
The serpentine dual-handled upper-tier with removable glass tray supported by four cherubic tritons, the lower-tier inlaid with cube parquetry, above a shaped-frieze centered to the front and reverse with a 'crab' mount, on foliate-headed cabriole legs tapering to scrolled sabots
36 5/8 in. (93 cm.) high, 36¼ in. (92 cm.) wide, 23 in. (58.5 cm.) deep

Specialist note

This table à thé is a slight variation of index number 610 shown on Linke's stand at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle. Additional variants are illustrated in C. Payne, François Linke: The Belle Epoque of French Furniture, Woodbridge, 2003, pp. 94, 117 and 494.