Adrian Alan Center Tables

A Fine Sèvres-Style Porcelain and Gilt-Bronze Mounted Ebonised Centre Table. The top inset with a cobalt-blue ground central plaque with portrait of Louis XVI, signed 'Hété', the fo...

A Fine Louis XVI Style Patinated and Gilt-Bronze Mounted Centre Table, After The Fontainebleau Model, By François Linke. This fine table has a circular top of burr-thuya wood banded...

A Rare and Important Micromosaic Inlaid Marble and Giltwood Centre Table. Attributed to Michelangelo Barberi, Rome. The circular top with a border of black marble inlaid with red m...

A Fine Sèvres-Style Porcelain and Gilt-Bronze Mounted Ebonised Centre Table The top inset with a turquoise ground central plaque of Francis I (1494-1547) at the Battle of Pavia, sig...

A Large William IV 'Antiquarian' Yew Wood Centre Table. The impressive centre table is of large proportions. The circular top is veneered in radiating segments with ebony and boxwo...

A unique monumental Louis XVI Style giltwood centre table with a Brèche Violette marble top by François Linke. French, circa 1914. Giltwood furniture by Linke is not only rare, but can be difficult to identify as it tends to be unmarked. This table can however be confidently attributed to Linke, as an early black and white photograph of the piece, Linke index no. 2575, survives in the Linke Archive (see page 428 pl. 501, in Christopher Payne: François Linke, 1855-1946, The Belle Époque of French Furniture). The only one of its kind known to have been produced, it was carved for Linke in May 1914 by the outworker Derivry. It formed part of the important commission of furniture ordered by the Italian born Argentinean banker Antonio Devoto...

A Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Mahogany Centre Table. The table with a Villefranche de Conflent marble top of soft purple patterning against a white ground. Beneath the marbl...

A Fine Louis XVI Style Patinated and Gilt-Bronze Mounted Centre Table After The Fontainebleau Model with a Verde Patricia Marble Top, by Zwiener Jansen Successeur. The bronze mounts...

An Impressive Goncalo Alves (tiger wood) and Mahogany Centre Table With a Specimen Marble Top. This fine table is of imposing size with the specimen top measuring almost 137 cm (55 ...

‘Table des Muses’ A Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Marquetry Centre Table By Emmanuel-Alfred (Dit Alfred II) Beurdeley, After The Model By Jean-Henri Riesener. Stamped ‘A...

An important and rare gilt-bronze, mahogany and Bois Satiné centre table, with campan rubané marble top. By François Linke. Linke index number 1103. The g...

A Biedermeier Satin birch and ebonised centre table. This handsome centre table has a circular top of beautifully figured birch. It rests on s...

A Rare Belle Epoque Gilt-Bronze Mounted Parquetry Inlaid Centre Table, By François Linke. The Mounts Designed by Léon Messagé. Signed 'F. Linke'. This opulent centre table has a beautifully patterned onyx top inset within a gilt-bronze moulded surround signed 'F. Linke'. The curved frieze centred to each side by a shell shaped mount. The front fitted with a central drawer. The apron mounted with swept acanthus and trailing hibiscus. The corners with female busts with ribbon-tied bodices. On cabriole legs. France, Circa 1900. Linke, François François Linke (1855 - 1946) was the most important Parisian cabinet...

A Louis XVI style gilt-bronze and marquetry centre table. This impressive centre table is beautifully enriched with cuivre doré mounts. The top has a lozenge pattern parquetry gro...

A Napoleon III gilt-bronze and onyx centre table, By Maison Marnyhac, Paris. Signed to the edge of the stretcher 'MAISON MARNYHAC 1. RUE DE LA PAIX PARIS'. This opulent centre table has a beautifully patterned onyx top inset within stiff-leaf cast gilt-bronze border and guilloche patterned frieze. The legs modelled as female terms with arms crossed and holding atop their heads flower filled baskets. The lower part of the legs are formed as tapering pilasterrs joined by an elaborate loop stretcher with central platform. France, Circa 1865 This table is exemplary of the finest luxury furniture made during the opulent Second Empire period. The use of Algerian onyx-marble is especially indicative of this period as it was not until the 1840s that the quarries near Constantine in Algeria, then under French rule, which had been abandoned since antiquity, were rediscovered. Alphonse Pallu et Cie presented the stone at the Exhibition of Algerian Products in Paris in 1860 and established the Compagnie des Marbres Onyx...

A very fine Empire style gilt-bronze mounted mahogany table de Milieu, with a Verde Antico Marble Top, in the Manner of Jacob Desmalter. The rectangular marble top above a frieze...

An Exceptionally Rare and Important Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Marquetry Inlaid Centre Table by François Linke, the Mounts Designed by Léon Messagé. Linke Index No. 930. Signed 'Linke' to the upper bronze moulding. Stamped 'FL' to the reverse of the bronze mounts. Stamped to the carcass 'Made in France’. Of exhibition quality this magnificent table has a fine marquetry inlaid top and sumptuous gilt-bronze mounts, designed and sculpted by Léon Messagé. The shaped gilt-bronze mounted serpentine top is finely inlaid with scrolling bois de bout floral marquetry, above an undulating frieze set to the front with a long drawer and centred by a female mask, the sides are mounted with exuberant scallop-shell mounts and the angles with lively and emotive female espagnolettes emblematic of Modestie and Coquetterie; the table is raised on cabriole legs terminating in shell-capped scrolled sabots. A rare example in Linke’s oeuvre, the table is a variation of a larger example index number 930, described by Linke as modèle riche, which included an elaborate stretcher with banner-bearing cherubs based on Léon Messagé's celebrated sculptural group 'La Source' (illustrated C. Payne, François Linke: The Belle Epoque of French Furniture, Woodbridge, 2003; p.172, Pl. 186). Linke workshop's cliché of the larger modèle riche is illustrated in C. Payne, François Linke: The Belle Epoque of French Furniture, Woodbridge, 2003; p.483. The exceptional sculptural mounts are characteristic of the very finest 19th Century furniture created through François Linke and Léon Messagé’s collaboration. Messagé’s enhanced Louis XV Rococo style embraces the asymmetrical lines of designers such as J.A. Meissonnier, to create lively and emotive figures linked by sinuous encadrement, but cleverly modernised to reflect the surge of popularity of the Art Nouveau. The female busts, referred to by Linke as Coquetterie et Modestie, although reminiscent of the paintings of François Boucher and Flaconet have moved on in their design from the classical espagnolette, introduced by Charles Cressent in the 18th century, to become something new and vital. Designed for the celebrated 'Commode coquille: Coquetterie et Modestie' (index 559), presented at his award-winning stand at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, (C. Payne, François Linke: The Belle Epoque of French Furniture, Woodbridge, 2003; p.142-144, pl. 151), Linke was obliged to purchase their design at a tremendous cost from Messagé. First castings began in 1897 and they proved fruitful for Linke, becoming a favourite mount, repurposed by Linke for use on a number of important designs. The larger version of the current table was intended to be displayed en suite with the commode but was not ready in time for the exhibition. It was first exhibited at the Salon des Industries du Mobilier in 1902, and again in Liège in 1905 (C. Payne, François Linke: The Belle Epoque of French Furniture, Woodbridge, 2003; p. 170-173). Available in three sizes, 132 cm x 72 cm, 138 x 75 cm and an even larger version (index no. 965) the design proved popular with Linke’s clientele, which included commissions supplied to Elias Meyer in 1909 (Illustrated C. Payne; p.243, pl. 258), Madame d’Astoreca in 1910, Antonio Devoto...

A fine Louis XVI style gilt-bronze mounted and parquetry inlaid centre table, by François Linke. Signed 'F. Linke' to the bronze rim. Stamped 'FL' to the reverse of the bronze mo...

A fine Louis XVI style mahogany gilt bronze mounted Guéridon. This fine gilt bronze mounted mahogany Guéridon has a green marble top inset within a gilt bronze frame, above a frie...

A fine Empire style gilt-bronze mounted mahogany centre table with a Vert de Mer marble top, in the manner of Jacob-Desmalter. The rectangular Verde Antico marble top sits above ...

A fine Louis XV Style gilt bronze mounted table Vitrine, by François Linke, the mounts designed by Léon Messagé. Index Number 131. This elegant tabl...

A fine gilt-bronze mounted mahogany centre table with an onyx marble top by François Linke. Linke Index number: 118 Linke title: 'Table Louis XVI, bois d'acajou bronze dorés.' ...

A gilt-bronze mounted parquetry inlaid centre table, Attributed to François Linke. French, circa 1900. The circular parquetry top of diapered trellis with gilt-bronze edging ab...

A finely carved Louis XIV/Regence style giltwood centre table with a rare Patricia green Italian marble top. French, circa 1880. This impressive centre table is based on the celebrated table made for the Château de Bercy now in the Louvre, Paris (Louvre Accession No. OA 5049). The Château de Bercy, east of Paris, was built by François Le Vau...

An impressive Italian carved giltwood centre table with a Verde Antico marble top. Italian, circa 1860. The table has a shaped apron with diapered panels centred by an exubere...

A Very Fine George IV Parcel-Gilt Amboyna Centre Table Attributed to Thomas & George Seddon. English, Circa 1830. The table is of finely figured Amboyna with a circular tilt-top above a triform column with parcel-gilt scrolled supports. It is raised on a conforming plinth base with foliate carved feet and concealed castors. George Seddon was the eighth child of John Seddon of Blakelea, Lancashire. His father apprenticed him to George Clemaphon of Cripplegate to learn cabinet making. He became a master cabinet maker. (He was Master of the Joiner’s Company in 1795). In the early 1750s he was sufficiently successful to acquire London House, Aldersgate Street. It consisted of extensive workshops, where furniture was made, and showrooms to display the finished products. London House had formerly been a palace of the Bishops of London. The panelled state-rooms were ideal for the display of fashionable furniture; and the chapel and library made convenient workshops. When Seddon married, he converted the garden house and infirmary into the family home. Seddon was the biggest furniture maker of his time. His furniture store covered a two acre site in Aldersgate Street. His workshop there was described by London visitor Sophie v. La Roche in 1786: "We drove first to Mr. Seddon's, a cabinet-maker,...He employs four hundred apprentices on any work connected with the making of household furniture—joiners, carvers, gilders...

A fine Louis XVI style mahogany and marquetry centre table with gilt bronze mounts attributed to François Linke. French, circa 1890. This fine marquetry table has a frieze with...

A fine Louis XVI style gilt bronze-mounted ebonised gueridon with Sèvres-style porcelain plaques. French, circa 1870. Stamped to the reverse o...

A Louis XVI style mahogany gilt bronze centre table after The Model by Jean-Henri Riesener by Paul Sormani. French, circa 1890. Stamped 'Paul Sormani 10 rue Charlot à Paris'. ...

A fine gilt-bronze mounted flame mahogany and Satine Gueridon with a reversible baise lined top. French, circa 1890. This fine gueridon has a circular top veneered in flame ma...

An exceptional Louis XVI style gilt-bronze mounted centre table in the manner of Adam Weisweiler, with a rare amethyst quartz marble top. French, cir...