Louis MAJORELLE (1859-1926) - Lot 298

Louis MAJORELLE (1859-1926) Lounge table, c.1898, in carved and molded walnut with a rectangular top with rounded corners and marquetry decoration in different woods of flowers and aristoloches leaves, opening with a drawer in the waist. Corner base with curved legs, grooved at the top then bulging with carved floral decoration and ending in a recessed curved cone. Signed in the marquetry. Height 73 cm - length 89 cm - depth 9 cm History: one-drawer "Aristoloche" table, price January 1914: 190 francs. A similar model is preserved in the Musée d'Orsay collections, the "Feuilles de marronnier" coffee table (inv. OAO 1362). Bibliography: catalog, Majorelle Nancy, "Décorations d'intérieurs, meubles, tentures, bronzes, ferronneries", Imprimeries réunies, Nancy, 1914, model reproduced pl. 38, under no. 78bis. Alastair Duncan, Louis Majorelle Master of the Art Nouveau design, Thames and Hudson, London, 1991, similar model referenced and reproduced p. 205, pl. 131. Collective work, Majorelle un art de vivre moderne, Ville de Nancy, 2009, similar model with variant in the tray decor, referenced under no. 50 and reproduced on p. 53. Appraised by Amélie MARCILHAC