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A Rare and Unusual Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted and Marquetry Inlaid Bureau de Dame by François Linke.
French, Circa 1890.
Signed to the gilt-bronze rim ‘Linke’.
Stamped to the reverse of the handles 'FL'.
The lockplate stamped 'CT LINKE SERRURERIE PARIS - 1652'.
This rare bureau de dame has a shaped top with an inset gilt-tooled red leather top banded to the edge with a moulded gilt-bronze rim. Below are two central drawers above a kneehole flankedto each side by three drawers. The drawers and sides are finely inlaid with floral marquetry and the angles mounted with unusual gilt-bronze figural mounts.
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.
Dimensions
Height : 80 cm 31 inches Width : 88 cm 35 inches Depth : 54 cm 21 inchesStock number
B71300The BADA Standard
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