拍品 60
60
AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND MARQUETRY PEDESTAL, in the manner of Linke, with a serpentine breche violette marble top above four bombe sides with ormolu triumphal palm-fronds supporting flower baskets and ribbon-tied cornucopiae inlaid with bois de bout floral marquetry, the four corners draped with Herculean lion pelt mounts and centred by a 'poetic' laurel wreath, on four scrolled feet

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AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND MARQUETRY PEDESTAL, in the manner of Linke, with a serpentine breche violette marble top above four bombe sides with ormolu triumphal palm-fronds supporting flower baskets and ribbon-tied cornucopiae inlaid with bois de bout floral marquetry, the four corners draped with Herculean lion pelt mounts and centred by a 'poetic' laurel wreath, on four scrolled feet
17½in. (44.5cm.) wide; 54in. (137cm.) high; 18in. (46cm.) deep.

拍品专文

Much of the ornament on this pedestal, designed in the curvaceous 1760's French-Grecian style, relates to a remarkable cabinet designed by Francois Linke, circa 1885 (Sotheby's, London, 27 September 1991, lot 27). The work of Maison Linke at the 1900 Paris Exhibition was praised in Revue Artistique & Industrielle for recreating the elegance and tradition of 18th century French cabinet-making.

See also lot 132.