Georges-François Alix Tables

Fine quality 19th century gilt bronze mounted and glass vitrine table. Top and 4 sides of beveled glass with a red velvet lined interior. Burn mark on bottom for C. Mellier & Co. C. Mellier & Co The firm of C. Mellier & Co. was founded by Charles Mellier...

An antique French Vernis Martin decorated vitrine offers mahogany construction with single glass door opening to shelved interior over drawer and single ...

This is a superb and unique vitrine made of Acajou mahogany and features distinctive wood grain and color of that species. The bronze mounts are of the finest quality possible, and t...

19th century Louis XV style curio display table, mahogany with bronze mounts French Louis XV style elegant mahogany and bronze decorated display...

A palatial and superb early 20th century gilt bronze Mounted Louis XVI style Mahogany Vitrine by François Linke François Linke The arched top with scrolled corners and centered by a laurel wreath and crossed acanthus branches, above a central large door at top by a lyre on drapery-covered plinth, flanked by scrolling acanthus, with a smaller door to each side hung with floral swags and with central oval plate, the divides cast with a slender flower-filled vase, the interior with adjustable shelves and drawers to the bottom, on shaped foliate-cast plinth and acanthus-capped tapering feet. Inscribed F. Linke to the top right bronze mount and stamped “C LINKE” on the back of the locks. Linke was born in Pankraz in Bohemia and was celebrated by the French as one of the greatest ébénistes of meubles de style at the turn of the century. He began his apprenticeship with a Bohemian master at the age of thirteen. Four years later, he toured Austria, settling and working in Vienna for two years. Linke arrived in Paris in 1875, and by 1881 he had established his own small workshop at 170 rue du Faubourg St. Antoine. Taking 18th century styles as his starting point and adapting earlier styles to contemporary taste, Linke produced fine quality furniture, steadily expanding his business during the next 20 years. He firmly established his reputation after receiving a gold medal at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1900 for his extraordinary Grand Bureau. He continued to use international fairs as a means of exploring new markets, exhibiting at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, the Liege in Belgium and the 1908 Franco-British exhibition in London. Linke’s highly original designs sprang from the Régence and Rococo styles but were imbued with something quite new – Rococo curves were laden with gilt-bronze sculptural mounts in the tradition of A.-C. Boulle (1642-1732) or Charles Cressent (1685-1758). Stylistically, the new designs still adhered to the Rococo; the novelty, however, was Linke’s fusion of the Rococo with the liveliness and the fluidity of the ‘art nouveau’. The Revue called Linke’s creations entierement nouveau, and continued to say that ‘Linke’s stand...

An exquisite Louis XV/Louis XVI Transitional style vitrine by the renowned French cabinetmaker François Linke from the late 19th century. Crafted in kingwood and mahogany, this fine ...

A fantastic quality late 19th century Louis XVI style gilt bronze mounted Vernis Martin vitrine cabinet By François Linke A pierced bronze gallery above a bronze mount of a female ...

An Exceptional Late 19th Century Louis XV Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Mahogany Vitrine By François Linke François Linke – Variant to Index no. 1552 The shaped fleur de pecher marble ...

Fine Gilt bronze and Mahogany Vitrine Louis XVI style table attributed to François Linke. Lined in antique red velvet, the table sits on tapered legs, surmounting and joined by a lower display shelf. Intricately cast ormolu garlands of floral and foliate adornments form a frieze encircling the sable sides and and each leg. The Vitrine locks and is in full working order, with an exquisitely casted ornate key...

An Exceptional Early 20th Century Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Parquetry Vitrine By François Linke François Linke – Index no. 458 The fleur de pêcher marble top above a scro...

A French Louis XVI Style "Belle Époque" Mahogany and gilt bronze Mounted Sever Exhibition Vitrine with Marble Top. The three-sided cabinet with twin front glass doors below a pair of apron drawers, the interior with a single curved glass shelf...

Antique English chippendale mahogany table vitrine, circa 1890.