The marble inset top above a frieze mounted with two satyr putti and one central bacchic putto amidst abundant vine leaves, bunches of grapes and ribbon-tied floral swags, with herm capital angles, over a glazed panelled door mounted below with an ormolu oval relief plaque depicting four frolicking putti adorned with scrolling foliage, flowers and vine leaves, enclosing three glass shelves and a mirrored back, flanked by entwined laurel leaf pendant mounts, on keeled legs terminating in scroll and acanthus cast sabots. 85cm wide x 40cm deep x 160cm high, (33in wide x 15 1/2in deep x 62 1/2in high)

Footnotes

A slightly larger Linke vitrine, after index number 1122, which sold Sotheby's, New York, 26 October 2006, A Private Collection, lot 53, shares a number of comparable characteristics with the present lot. Both have conforming gilt bronze oval plaques, similar scrolling floral and foliate mounts, and virtually identical entwined laurel-leaf mounted angles.

The herm mounts to the upper part of the offered model feature on several such Linke display cabinets, including a variant of index numbers 38 and 1122 that sold Sotheby's, New York, 25 April 2012, 19th Century Furniture, lot 207 and also a beautiful Jasperware example which sold Sotheby's, New York, 18 April 2015, lot 477.

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