A Louis XV Style Table Ambulante Attributed to François Linke

A Louis XV Style Marble and Gilt-Bronze Mounted Table Ambulante Attributed to François Linke.

French, Circa 1880.

A Louis XV Style Marble and Gilt-Bronze Mounted Table Ambulante Attributed to François Linke , with a circular inset top above a band frieze with applied mounts.  The table ambulante stands on four cabriole legs terminating in sabots and tied by an upswept x-stretcher.

François Linke (1855 - 1946) was the most important Parisian cabinet maker of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and possibly the most sought after cabinet maker of his period.

He was born in 1855 in the small village of Pankraz, in what is now the Czech Republic.  Records show that Linke served an apprenticeship with the master cabinetmaker Neumann, then in 1875 at the age of 20 he arrived in Paris where he lived until he died in 1946.

It is known that the fledgling Linke workshops were active in Paris in the Faubourg St. Antoine as early as 1881, and during this time he supplied furniture for other more established makers such as Jansen and Krieger.

The quality of Linke's craftsmanship was unsurpassed by any of his contemporaries and reached its peak with his spectacular stand at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900, where his Grand Bureau took the gold medal.  He gambled his fortune and reputation on this stand, exhibiting several breathtaking items of furniture with sculptural mounts of the most exceptional quality and proportion.  His gamble worked and his reputation was established to such an extent that Linke continued to be the pre-eminent furniture house in Paris until the Second World War. 

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