Rare Ormolu Bronze Mounted Marble Top Table Signe Francois Linke

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Rare Ormolu Bronze Mounted Marble Top Table Signe Francois Linke:
$24000.00

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Rare Ormolu Bronze Mounted Marble Top Table Signed F. Linke DescriptionWe aquired this wonderful table from a local estateA very fine Louis XV style bronze-mounted side table, signed F. Linke, on the bronze rim, with a full stretcher and an exotic marble top.
The identical table is pictured in Christoper Payne\'s book, Francois Linke, The Belle Époque of French Furniture, Page 489. This is an extremely fine example of 19th Century French furniture, and is absolutely guaranteed to be authentic.
The table is 30\" tall, and 21\" round.
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François Linke (1855 - 1946.)François Linke was undoubtedly the most celebrated Parisian cabinet-maker of his time. Having served an apprenticeship in his home town of Pankraz, Bohemia, Linke moved to Paris in 1875 where, in 1881, he established his workshop 170, rue du Faubourg Saint- Antoine to produce furniture derived from styles popular during the Ancien Régime. By 1900, his worldwide reputation as an individualistic master of high quality furniture was already established. However, with a huge display, placing his extraordinary pieces in room settings and winning the gold medal for his Grand Bureau, Linke’s participation in the Paris 1900 exhibition was to be the pinnacle of his career and prompted critics, such as Charles Dambreuse, to comment : “L’Exposition de la maison Linke est le gros événement de l’histoire du meuble d’art en l’an de grâce 1900” (see C. Dambreuse, “L’Art Industriel à l’Exposition de Meuble de Style – M. F. Linke”, in Revue Artistique & Industrielle, Paris, July-August, 1900). Linke’s international acclaim following the 1900 exhibition granted him a high degree of financial stability, not only allowing him to establish a large showroom on the fashionable place Vendôme, but also to pursue new and further distant markets by exhibiting at other international shows. These included the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904, where he was again awarded a gold medal, Liège in 1905 and the Franco-british Exhibition in London in 1908. This allowed him to become the purveyor of the most distinguished families throughout the world. Linke furnished Kings such as Fuad Ier of Egypt or tycoons such as Raphael de Lamar in New York, the Bolivian tin magnate Simon Patino, the Buenos Aires billionnaire count Devoto. Like the inventories of his contemporaries such as Beurdeley and Dasson, Linke’s work included adaptations of the distinct styles of 18th century important and royal French furniture. However, his most extravagant exhibition pieces combined the Louis XV style with the Art Nouveau style. Linke’s worked in partnership for the design and execution of the sumptuous mounts for these “modèles entièrement nouveaux” with the enigmatic sculptor Léon Messagé. In a volume of designs for furniture, gilt-bronze and silver, published in 1890 from his address at 40, rue Sedaine, Messagé interpreted the traditional Louis XV style but, just like Linke with the sinuous forms of his furniture, imbued it with distinct flourishes of the Art Nouveau. In an obituary after his death in 1904, the magazine Art & Curiosité paid tribute to this vigorous manner and new sense of movement, commenting: “…(ces) projets nés sous le crayon se formèrent d’un jet plus rapide en la noble matière du bronze, ciselé d’une main sûre...” (October, 1904, p. 166). In 1904, Linke was made officier de l’Instruction publique, and in 1905 he was called to be a member of the Jury of the Liège exhibition. Following his stands in the Saint-Louis exhibition in 1904 and the Liège exhibition in 1905, he was decorated with the highest distinction of France, the croix de la Légion d’honneur in 1906.
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