A FINE FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND MARQUETRY CENTER TABLE

This ormolu-enriched table, embellished with Roman foliage and inlaid with studious figures emblematical of the Sciences, is copied from one supplied in 1771 for Louis XVI's Garde-Meuble by Jean-Henri Riesener (maître 1768), and is now on display at the Petit Trianon, Versailles. The table was reproduced in the 19th and early 20th centuries by such celebrated ébénistes as Beurdeley and, as illustrated here, François Linke. An example of Linke's index number 251 is shown in the Elias Meyer residence at 16 Grosvenor Square, London (C. Payne, Woodbridge, 2003, p. 246). Another table was sold A Private Collection, Volume I, Sotheby's, New York, 26 October 2006, lot 201 ($39,000).