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A GERMAN JUGENDSTIL 800 STANDARD SILVER AND SILVER-GILT SALOME CANEAttributed to Christian Ferdinand Morawe, executed by Theodor Fahrner, Pforzheim, 1905
A GERMAN JUGENDSTIL 800 STANDARD SILVER AND SILVER-GILT CANEPossibly designed by Hermann Gradl the Elder, circa 1905

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AN AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN SECESSIONIST DIAMOND AND LAPIS LAZULI INSET 800 STANDARD SILVER AND SILVER-GILT OVERLAY ROCK CRYSTAL QUARTZ CANEDesigned by Josef Hoffmann for Wiener Werkstätte, Vienna, circa 1907
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A FRENCH ART NOUVEAU GREEN GLASS INSET 800 STANDARD SILVER BEETLE CANE Designed and executed by Henri Vever, Paris, circa 1890-1900
A DANISH SKØNVIRKE COPPER AND 830 STANDARD SILVER ROBOT CANEDesigned and executed by Carl M. Cohr, Fredericia, 1921
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A fine Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted kingwood and mahogany bureau plat after Charles CressentFrançois Linke or Antoine Kriegerlate 19th century image 1
A fine Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted kingwood and mahogany bureau plat after Charles CressentFrançois Linke or Antoine Kriegerlate 19th century image 2
A fine Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted kingwood and mahogany bureau plat after Charles CressentFrançois Linke or Antoine Kriegerlate 19th century image 3
A fine Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted kingwood and mahogany bureau plat after Charles CressentFrançois Linke or Antoine Kriegerlate 19th century image 4
A fine Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted kingwood and mahogany bureau plat after Charles CressentFrançois Linke or Antoine Kriegerlate 19th century image 5
A fine Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted kingwood and mahogany bureau plat after Charles CressentFrançois Linke or Antoine Kriegerlate 19th century image 6
A fine Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted kingwood and mahogany bureau plat after Charles CressentFrançois Linke or Antoine Kriegerlate 19th century image 7
A fine Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted kingwood and mahogany bureau plat after Charles CressentFrançois Linke or Antoine Kriegerlate 19th century image 8
A fine Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted kingwood and mahogany bureau plat after Charles CressentFrançois Linke or Antoine Kriegerlate 19th century image 9
A fine Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted kingwood and mahogany bureau plat after Charles CressentFrançois Linke or Antoine Kriegerlate 19th century image 10
A fine Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted kingwood and mahogany bureau plat after Charles CressentFrançois Linke or Antoine Kriegerlate 19th century image 11
A fine Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted kingwood and mahogany bureau plat after Charles CressentFrançois Linke or Antoine Kriegerlate 19th century image 12
A fine Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted kingwood and mahogany bureau plat after Charles CressentFrançois Linke or Antoine Kriegerlate 19th century image 13
A fine Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted kingwood and mahogany bureau plat after Charles CressentFrançois Linke or Antoine Kriegerlate 19th century image 14
A fine Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted kingwood and mahogany bureau plat after Charles CressentFrançois Linke or Antoine Kriegerlate 19th century image 15
A fine Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted kingwood and mahogany bureau plat after Charles CressentFrançois Linke or Antoine Kriegerlate 19th century image 16
A fine Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted kingwood and mahogany bureau plat after Charles CressentFrançois Linke or Antoine Kriegerlate 19th century image 17
A fine Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted kingwood and mahogany bureau plat after Charles CressentFrançois Linke or Antoine Kriegerlate 19th century image 18
A fine Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted kingwood and mahogany bureau plat after Charles CressentFrançois Linke or Antoine Kriegerlate 19th century image 19
A fine Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted kingwood and mahogany bureau plat after Charles CressentFrançois Linke or Antoine Kriegerlate 19th century image 20
A fine Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted kingwood and mahogany bureau plat after Charles CressentFrançois Linke or Antoine Kriegerlate 19th century image 21
A fine Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted kingwood and mahogany bureau plat after Charles CressentFrançois Linke or Antoine Kriegerlate 19th century image 22
A fine Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted kingwood and mahogany bureau plat after Charles CressentFrançois Linke or Antoine Kriegerlate 19th century image 23
A fine Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted kingwood and mahogany bureau plat after Charles CressentFrançois Linke or Antoine Kriegerlate 19th century image 24
A fine Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted kingwood and mahogany bureau plat after Charles CressentFrançois Linke or Antoine Kriegerlate 19th century image 25
A fine Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted kingwood and mahogany bureau plat after Charles CressentFrançois Linke or Antoine Kriegerlate 19th century image 26
A fine Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted kingwood and mahogany bureau plat after Charles CressentFrançois Linke or Antoine Kriegerlate 19th century image 27
A fine Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted kingwood and mahogany bureau plat after Charles CressentFrançois Linke or Antoine Kriegerlate 19th century image 28
A fine Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted kingwood and mahogany bureau plat after Charles CressentFrançois Linke or Antoine Kriegerlate 19th century image 29
Lot 1134

A fine Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted kingwood and mahogany bureau plat after Charles Cressent
François Linke or Antoine Krieger
late 19th century

Fine European Furniture and Decorative Arts
17 March 2014, 10:00 PDT
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A fine Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted kingwood and mahogany bureau plat after Charles Cressent
François Linke or Antoine Krieger
late 19th century

The gilt banded top with inset gilt tooled leather writing surface above gilt mounts on the deep drawers depicting a charming scene of putti musicians piping and beating time for a dog deftly balancing on a knotted rope suspended from bold acanthus mounts surrounding the drawers, each side mounted with an equally whimsical scene of putti suspending the knotted rope for a Commedia del'Arte figure of a monkey dressed in pantaloons and Phrygian cap, each corner mounted with espagnolettes, her ruffled bodice flowing to scrolled acanthus vines ending in bold acanthus sabots; the lockplate is stamped MON THEAU THIEFFINES SUCCR SERRURIER PARIS
height 34 1/2in (88cm); width 84in (214cm); depth 39in (100cm)

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Provenance:
Butterfield & Butterfield, Sale 2740, July 19, 1971, lot 547

Charles Cressent (1685-1768) was both an accomplished sculptor and ebeniste as well as pupil of Andres Charles Boulle. Although his furniture is not stamped, catalogues of sales of his clients as well as three catalogues of sales he conducted exist. In the 1758 sale, a commode sold with singerie themes of children holding ropes balancing monkeys and dogs. That commode is now in the Louvre Collection and is illustrated in Alexandre Pradere, French Furniture Makers, the Art of the Ebeniste from Louis XIV to the Revolution, 1989, illustration 99, page 136. That commode is the inspiration for a number of 19th century ebenistes including Zwiener, Krieger and Linke.

A very similar bureau plat, signed F. Linke, sold Christie's, New York, 500 Years of Decorative Arts, April 15, 2011, lot 203; a second bureau plat attributed to Linke but unsigned, sold Sotheby's New York, April 20, 2007, lot 133; a singerie commode attributed to Linke sold Christie's, April 15, 2011, lot 158, that commode had a lock plate signed just as does the offered bureau plat MON THEAU THIEFFINES SUCCR SERRURIER PARIS..

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A GERMAN JUGENDSTIL 800 STANDARD SILVER AND SILVER-GILT SALOME CANEAttributed to Christian Ferdinand Morawe, executed by Theodor Fahrner, Pforzheim, 1905
A GERMAN JUGENDSTIL 800 STANDARD SILVER AND SILVER-GILT CANEPossibly designed by Hermann Gradl the Elder, circa 1905
AN AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN SECESSIONIST DIAMOND AND LAPIS LAZULI INSET 800 STANDARD SILVER AND SILVER-GILT OVERLAY ROCK CRYSTAL QUARTZ CANEDesigned by Josef Hoffmann for Wiener Werkstätte, Vienna, circa 1907
A BELGIAN ART NOUVEAU ROCK CRYSTAL AND 800 STANDARD SILVER-GILT CANEDesigned and executed by Henry Clemens van de Velde, circa 1915
A GERMAN JUGENDSTIL ONYX INSET 900 STANDARD SILVER OVERLAY BROWN OBSIDIAN CANEAttributed to Victor Mayer, Pforzheim, 1902–1905
A DANISH SKØNVIRKE PERIDOT INSET 826 STANDARD SILVER OCEAN FLOOR CANEAttributed to Christian Fjerdingstad, Skagen, circa 1920
A FRENCH ART NOUVEAU GREEN GLASS INSET 800 STANDARD SILVER BEETLE CANE Designed and executed by Henri Vever, Paris, circa 1890-1900
A DANISH SKØNVIRKE COPPER AND 830 STANDARD SILVER ROBOT CANEDesigned and executed by Carl M. Cohr, Fredericia, 1921
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A DANISH SKØNVIRKE OPAL INSET 826 STANDARD SILVER-GILT CANEDesigned and executed by Mogens Ballin, Copenhagen, 1904-1937
A BELGIAN ROCK CRYSTAL AND OPAL INSET 800 STANDARD SILVER BEETLE CANEDesigned and executed by Philippe Wolfers, Brussels, 1900-1905
A SWEDISH DIAMOND INSET 800 STANDARD SILVER NIELLO SNAKE CANEDesigned and executed by Wilhelm James Andreevitch Bolin, Stockholm, 1919
A FRENCH ART NOUVEAU DIAMOND INSET SILVER-GILT CARVED COW HORN FLOWER BUD CANEDesigned and executed by André Aucoc, Paris, circa 1900
AN AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN JUGENDSTIL OPAL INSET 750 STANDARD SILVER-GILT ANTHROPOMORPHIC CANEDesigned and executed by František (Franta) Anýž, Czechoslovakia, 1905
AN AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN JUGENDSTIL MOONSTONE INSET 750 STANDARD SILVER-GILT CANEDesigned and executed by František (Franta) Anýž, Czechoslovakia, 1905
A FRENCH ART NOUVEAU STERLING SILVER CHAMELEON CANEDesigned and executed by Lucien Gaillard, Paris, circa 1900-1905
AN ITALIAN GRAND TOUR BLACK MARBLE, AGATE, AND LAPIS LAZULI PIETRA DURA CANEDesigned and executed by Giovanni Montelatici, Florence, 1890
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A FRENCH ART DECO DIAMOND INSET 800 STANDARD SILVER AND ENAMEL CANEDesigned and executed by Victor Boivin, Paris, circa 1905–1910
A GERMAN JUGENDSTIL 900 STANDARD SILVER NIELLO CANEDesigned and executed by Hermann & Speck, Pforzheim, circa 1902–1905