A very important and unique mahogany &quot;grande vitrine de milieu&quot; created for the Saint-Louis world fair in 1904, by François Linke and Léon Messagé. With a gilt bronze figure of a warrior child above a serpentine ormolu-mounted spreading top on a square mahogany case, the four sides inlaid with glass panels within a gilt bronze border surmounted with a rocaille crest, opening by one door on two displaying glass shelves, above a shaped apron centered on all four sides with a foliate cast…