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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND BOIS SATINE PARQUETRY BUREAU A CYLINDRE
Lot 50

A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND BOIS SATINE PARQUETRY BUREAU A CYLINDRE

BY FRANÇOIS LINKE, INDEX NUMBER 393, PARIS, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Closed22 September 2011

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND BOIS SATINE PARQUETRY BUREAU A CYLINDRE
BY FRANÇOIS LINKE, INDEX NUMBER 393, PARIS, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Surmounted by a pierced guilloche acanthus gallery above three frieze drawers and a tambour with a berried-laurel and shell-cast encadrement and handles with a central cartouche enclosing cube parquetry, the interior with pull-out gilt-tooled dark-green leather-lined writing surface and fitted with three alcoves above two drawers and two trays, the angles headed by putti holding cornucopia candelabra, the sides with conforming frames and cube parquetry, above a central drawer with 'crab' escutcheon flanked to the left by a split drawer and to the right with a deep drawer fitted with a lift-out tray and coffre fort, on cabriole legs headed by pierced rocaille-cast clasps running to scrolled sabots, the slide moulding signed 'F. Linke. Paris', the locks stamped 'CT LINKE SERRURERIE PARIS'
49¼ in. (125 cm.) high; 57½ in. (146 cm.) wide; 31½ in. (80 cm.) deep

Specialist note

The precursor of this model, a simplified cylinder bureau in plain acajou moucheté and with less ornate mounts, sold A Private Collection Volume II, Sotheby's, New York, 19 April 2007, lot 139 ($66,000). A later more complex model with the same mounts and cube-parquetry, but lacking the 'putti' candelabra, is recorded as index number 393. Payne notes that two of the simplified version were made, three of this model but lacking candlearms and, between 1901-11, three with candlearms like the present lot. One direct comparable belonged to the famous Linke collector Captain Joseph R. De Lamar and is illustrated in the catalogue of the on-the-premises contents sale of his New York mansion in 1919 (American Art Association, New York, 20-22 November 1919, lot 351). Please see lot 32 for a further note on François Linke.