A Private Collection: Volume 2, Important Furniture and Decoration Inspired by XVIII Century Models

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Lot 155
  • 155

table À Écrire French, circa 1890

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Description

  • height 29 1/4 in.; width 29 3/4 in; depth 21 3/4 in.
  • 74.2 cm; 75.5 cm; 55.2 cm
amarante, bois de violette and sycomore flower-head trellis marquetry on the four sides, the top with a gilt-tooled red leather writing surface, one frieze drawer.

Literature

 D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Mobilier Français du XIX Siècle, p. 396, for an illustration of a slight variation of the present model by Antoine Krieger.

P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, 2002, p. 657, for an illustration of a similar 18th century model by Oeben.

Catalogue Note

This small table, in a fully-fledged Transitional style, is loosely based on the work by Jean-Francois Oeben (1721-1763; Master 1761). A mechanical table of a similar form is in the Linsky Bequest at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, another at the Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon.