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Mahogany, Gilt Bronze

41.00cm wide    77.00cm high    41.00cm deep (16.14 inches wide  30.31 inches high  16.14 inches deep)

François Linke (1855-1946) is considered to be one of the finest ebenistes and bronziers of the 19th century. He moved from Pankratz, Bohemia where he completed his apprenticeship under the strictest of training, to Paris in 1881, setting up shop in the Place Vendome, and with his workshops in the faubourg Saint Antoine, he quickly attracted a wealthy clientele, appreciative of the excellence of his work. Specialising in the style of the ancien regime and modifying the proportions of the original works to suit the smaller Parisian apartments, he was an exhibitor at the Paris Exposition Universelles of 1878, 1889, and 1900, and at the last, a Gold Medal winner par excellence for his extraordinary Bureau du Rois.

Christopher Payne’s excellent reference work, ‘François Linke, The Belle Epoque of French Furniture’, published by the Antique Collectors Club 2003, illustrates on pp66, two tables of similar form.

Excellent

Designed in the Transitional manner, and constructed in a mahogany that has acquired a wonderful colour and patination, adornedwith gilt bronze accents of the highest quality; rising from four cabriole legs, dressed with foliate sabots and chutes, enclose an undertier of serpentine form; the platform of conforming shape with moulded edges, and having a pull-out slide. Signed, to one chute ‘F. Linke’.