Louis XV Style Mahogany Coiffeuse Attributed to François Linke, French

A Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted mahogany Coiffeuse attributed to François Linke. French, circa 1910. François Linke (1855 - 1946) was the most important Parisian cabinet...

A fine Louis XV style gilt-bronze mounted mahogany Parquetry gueridon with a rare Alabastro Fiorito marble top, attributed to François Linke. French, circa 1890. This fine mah...

A very fine French 19th century Louis XV style ormolu mounted plum pudding mahogany veneer, mahogany and Vernis Martin decorated vitrine à Deux Corps, probably by François Linke (1855-1946). The lower structure fitted with finely chased gilt-bronze mounts with female masks, musical instruments, floral drapes, bows and acanthus, centred with a frieze drawer and a cupboard door with three painted panels. The centre front painted panel with a Romantic courting park setting scene amongst sheep and a sculpture fountain of Putti; the side panels both with parks scenes of a resting lion sculpture and fountain flanked by grassing sheep. The lower cabinet interior with three drawers, the upper vitrine case with two glass shelves, a bowed beveled front door and sides, crowned with a fine gilt-bronze wreath mount with ribbons, all raised on four cabriolet legs with cast lion paw mounts. Unsigned, Paris, circa 1890-1900. The style of this cabinet is closely related to those produced in the Paris furniture making trade in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine in the 1880s and as such, without a signature or identifying mark, is unattributable. However, there are similarities with the firm Raoux et Brunet, some of whose mounts were designed by Léon Messagé and later used by François Linke. Indeed many of the mounts on this cabinet, whilst not exclusive to him, are very similar to the work produced in his early years in Paris in the 1880s. At this time Linke was making furniture to order...

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...