A French ormolu-mounted kingwood console table by François Linke, Circa 1900. Surmounted by a shaped brèche violette marble top, centred to the front by a scallop shell, flanked to each side by scrolling foliage, on four cabriole legs, each headed by a female caryatid, the front right signed Linke, joined by an 'X'-shaped stretcher, centred by a Watteauesque man holding a mandolin, seated on a pierced foliate base, on foliate sabots
36 in. (91 cm.) high; 59 in. (150 cm.) wide; 20 in. (51 cm.) deep
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