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Lot Essay
The ‘green registers’ in the Linke Archive title this model 'Grande vitrine Louis XV 3 corps bois de violette Panneaux Vernis Martin’, and record that four were made with vernis Martin panels and four with marquetry panels. Much like other examples which do not bear his iconic signature to a foliate chute, this cabinet almost certainly pre-dates 1900 when Linke’s name gained greater celebrity with his award winning stand at the Paris Exposition Universelle of that year.
The model is thought to have been conceived as early as the 1880s, but is only first recorded in Linke’s registers in 1902 for a vernis Martin example, painted by Carl Guilbert on for a fee of 150 French francs: just over twice the cost of the marquetry versions. Further examples with vernis Martin panels sold at Christie's, London, 11 March 2015, lot 189 (£50,000) and Sotheby’s, New York, 22 April 2010, lot 449 ($74,500) .
The model is thought to have been conceived as early as the 1880s, but is only first recorded in Linke’s registers in 1902 for a vernis Martin example, painted by Carl Guilbert on for a fee of 150 French francs: just over twice the cost of the marquetry versions. Further examples with vernis Martin panels sold at Christie's, London, 11 March 2015, lot 189 (£50,000) and Sotheby’s, New York, 22 April 2010, lot 449 ($74,500) .