Extremely rare, Linke, Louis XV desk, 500kgs of bronze, 1 of a kind

Magnificent grand bureau/writing desk Louis XV, After Francois Linke The desk has an estimated total weight of approx. 450 kg, bronze weight approx. 250 kg. Solid beech wood and veneered. Solid bonze, fire-gilded and finely chased. The reverse of the Grand Bureau Louis XV, the huge oval plaque representing Agriculture and

Commerce framed by the recling figure of Abundance. F.Linke cleverly adapted many of these sculptural bronze for the settee no. 1410 shown in Appendix III. References: Francois Linke 1855-1946 The Belle Epoque of French Furniture by Chrispoher Payne, pages 127 to 129. F. Linke was born on 17 June 1855 in the small village of Pankraz, in what is now the Czech Republic. Records show that

Linke served an apprenticeship with the master cabinet maker, Neumann, which he completed in 1877. Linke’s work book or Arbeits-Buch records that he was in Vienna from July 1872 to October 1873 at the time of the International Exhibition held there in 1873.