François Linke

Exhibited by Adrian Alan

Material gilt-bronze, mahogany, marquetry

Dimensions 75 × 55 × 34 cm

Place of Creation France

Price Available upon inquiry

Status Vetted

About the Work

An Belle Époque Gilt-Bronze and Marquetry Table, By François Linke. Paris.

Linke Index number 554.

Called Table à Ouvrage, Coquille (Work Table, Shell) and recorded as model number 554 in Linke’s archives.

Signed ‘F. Linke’ to one corner clasp.

Signed ‘F. Linke’ to the lockplate.

Various incised ‘Linke’ and numbered markings to reverse of bronzes.

France, Circa 1900.

Exhibited:

The model was shown at:

Exhibition Universelle, Paris, 1900.

Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904.

Salon du Mobilier, Paris, 1902.

Salon du Mobilier, Paris, 1905.

Salon du Mobilier, Paris, 1911.

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Provenance

Private Collection, Switzerland.

Literature

C. Dambreuse, ‘Meubles de style M. F. Linke’, in P. Sironi and E Chatenay (eds.) Revue Artistique & Industrielle, Pars, L’Art Moderne, Paris, 1901, p. 244.

Art et Curiosité, October 1904, illustrated p. 162.

Payne, Christopher: François Linke, 1855-1946, the Belle Époque of French Furniture, Woodbridge, pp. 135, 138, 378-379, 382 and 378; illustrated pls. 148, 422-425.

Payne, Christopher: Paris Furniture, The Luxury Market of the 19th Century, Éditions Monelle Hayot, Paris, 2018, p. 445.