Live Auction 1113The Opulent Eye - 500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe
A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND BOIS SATINE CORNER CONSOLE
Lot 23 THE PROPERTY OF A LADY (LOTS 1-25)

A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND BOIS SATINE CORNER CONSOLE

BY FRANÇOIS LINKE, INDEX NUMBER 14, PARIS, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Closed14 March 2013

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND BOIS SATINE CORNER CONSOLE
BY FRANÇOIS LINKE, INDEX NUMBER 14, PARIS, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
The serpentine fleur de pêcher marble top above a panelled frieze centred by a scallop shell clasp, flanked by false handles, on cabriole legs joined by an pierced galleried undertier, the angles headed by foliate chutes terminating in acanthus-cast sabot, the reverse of the shell mount stamped 'FL', stamped twice 'MADE IN FRANCE'
39¼ in. (100 cm.) high; 28½ in. (72 cm.) wide; 18½ in. (47 cm.) deep

Specialist note

Payne notes that Linke appears to have made only two examples of this unusual corner étagère, index number 14, probably in 1891. A pair sold A Private Collection, Volume I, Sotheby's, New York, 26 October 2006, lot 173 ($60,000). Therefore the present lot, having remained in the same family since it was bought circa 1900, is perhaps a newly disovered example (C. Payne, Franois Linke: The Belle Epoque of French Furniture, Woodbridge, 2003 pl. 59, and a watercolour, pl. 60, p.67). The distinctive 'crab-like acanthus' mount and scrolling gallery show Léon Messagé's influence.