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A fine Louis XVI style gilt bronze and porcelain mounted mahogany commode a vantaux after Guillaume BennemanFrançois Linkefourth quarter 19th century image 8
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A fine Louis XVI style gilt bronze and porcelain mounted mahogany commode a vantaux after Guillaume BennemanFrançois Linkefourth quarter 19th century image 10
A fine Louis XVI style gilt bronze and porcelain mounted mahogany commode a vantaux after Guillaume BennemanFrançois Linkefourth quarter 19th century image 11
A fine Louis XVI style gilt bronze and porcelain mounted mahogany commode a vantaux after Guillaume BennemanFrançois Linkefourth quarter 19th century image 12
A fine Louis XVI style gilt bronze and porcelain mounted mahogany commode a vantaux after Guillaume BennemanFrançois Linkefourth quarter 19th century image 13
A fine Louis XVI style gilt bronze and porcelain mounted mahogany commode a vantaux after Guillaume BennemanFrançois Linkefourth quarter 19th century image 14
A fine Louis XVI style gilt bronze and porcelain mounted mahogany commode a vantaux after Guillaume BennemanFrançois Linkefourth quarter 19th century image 15
A fine Louis XVI style gilt bronze and porcelain mounted mahogany commode a vantaux after Guillaume BennemanFrançois Linkefourth quarter 19th century image 16
A fine Louis XVI style gilt bronze and porcelain mounted mahogany commode a vantaux after Guillaume BennemanFrançois Linkefourth quarter 19th century image 17
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A fine Louis XVI style gilt bronze and porcelain mounted mahogany commode a vantaux after Guillaume Benneman
François Linke
fourth quarter 19th century

Fine European Furniture and Decorative Arts
17 March 2014, 10:00 PDT
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A fine Louis XVI style gilt bronze and porcelain mounted mahogany commode a vantaux after Guillaume Benneman
François Linke
fourth quarter 19th century

The Rouge Griotte marble top with stepped edge and outset rounded corners above a gilt egg-and-dart banding and three frieze drawers mounted with intricately entwined laurel and foliate vines centering a lion's mask escutcheon above two cabinet doors mounted with floral and fruited vines forming golden mean spirals with trailing floral wisps centering a Wedgwood jasperware plaque depicting Coriolanus with his wife and mother begging him to return to Rome, above a band of swagged festoons raised on palmette banded feet, with two original gilt keys; the case stamped F. LINKE underneath top on each front corner; lock plate signed F. Linke, lockplate stamped on inside C T LINKE, SERRRURERIE PARIS.
height 37in (94cm); width 6in (152cm); depth 24in (61cm)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Corinthian Studios, Saratoga, California, November 12, 1970

Note:
Two original keys accompany this commode, one is identical to the key illustrated in Christopher Payne, page 356, the bow cast with crown and interlaced L, the larger key of shield form bow cast with scrolling acanthus is shown in various sizes.

The design of the present commode relates closely to that of a pair, adapted by Guillaume Benneman from a model by Joseph Stöckel, supplied to Marie-Antoinette for the Salon des Jeux at Fontainebleau in 1786. Linke's version titled Commode Louis XVI, réduction de commode Marie-Antoinette, is slightly reduced in scale and therefore not an exact replica, but more en hommage

According to Christopher Payne. Linke's commode number 203 was first made in 1894, with subsequent examples, the last in 1929. Linke make the first versions with Wedgwood plaques, the later examples with central gilt bronze medallions.

A very similar commode with lion's mask escutcheon and central Wedgwood plaque sold Christie's, 500 years Decorative Arts Europe, September 22, 2011, lot 32
Another offered Sotheby's, 19th Century Furniture, Sculpture and Ceramics April 15, 2011, lot 327

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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
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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
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
A TIFFANY & CO. ART DECO COBALT GLASS INSET STERLING SILVER CANENew York, New York, circa 1935
A GERMAN JUGENDSTIL LAPIS LAZULI INSET 800 STANDARD SILVER CANEDesigned and executed by Emmy Roth, Berlin, 1914
AN AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN JUGENDSTIL ONYX INSET 800 STANDARD SILVER CANEDesigned by Dagobert Peche for Wiener Werkstätte, Vienna, circa 1915
A DANISH SKØNVIRKE GREEN GLASS INSET 830 STANDARD SILVER-GILT CANEDesigned and executed by Evald Nielsen, Copenhagen, 1905-1931
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
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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
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