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An Important Gilt Bronze Mounted Table with a Fleur de Pecher Marble Top, after a model by Adam Weisweiller. ( 1900 )
| Artists: |
FRANCOIS LINKE (1855-1946) |
| Dimensions: | 80.00cm wide 74.00cm high 62.00cm deep (31.50 inches wide 29.13 inches high 24.41 inches deep) |
| Description: |
The design for this very fine table is taken from the dressing table by Adam Weisweiller for Marie Antoinette. Linke was to make three variations of this table. He showed a version in the form of a bijouterie table at the Paris Exhibition of 1900, (Linke index no. 114; il. Payne p. 122-123), and a version identical to the present example can be seen in the engraving of the Place Vendome Showrooms, after 1903. Linke was also to make a third version of this table with alternately fluted and foliate frieze, (Linke index no. 1301; ill. Payne, p. 502). François Linke was born in Pankratz in Bohemia in 1855 and arrived in Paris at the age of twenty. He died in Paris in 1946. He was the most important Paris cabinet-maker of the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century, and possibly the most sought after cabinet maker of this period. The quality of his craftsmanship was unsurpassed and was highlighted by his spectacular stand at the Paris Exhibition Universelle in 1900, where his Grand Bureau took a gold medal. The essential theme of his work was sculptural, in a modernised Louis XV style with a hint of the contemporary 'art nouveau', a large proportion of his work being directly copied from eighteenth century examples. However, he was known for the high quality of his work, which had an individualism and inventiveness not matched by his contemporaries. All of Linke’s work has the finest, most lavish mounts - the technical brilliance of his work and the artistic change that it represented, was never to be repeated. |
| Literature: |
Payne, Christopher, 'François Linke 1855-1946; The Belle Époque of French Furniture', Suffolk 2003, pp. 122-123; 160-161; 502. Payne, Christopher, '19th Century European Furniture', Suffolk 1989. |
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