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A French gilt bronze and variegated black marble encrier, late 19th or early 20th century
Surmounted by a figure of Hermes adjusting his sandal after a model by Jean Baptiste Pigalle, the base bearing the inscription Pigalle 1745, flanked by twin waisted cylindrical ink wells with engine milled foliate decoration overall, with glass liners, the shaped base with concave pen recess, on four toupie feet -- 19½in. (49.5cm.) wide
Surmounted by a figure of Hermes adjusting his sandal after a model by Jean Baptiste Pigalle, the base bearing the inscription Pigalle 1745, flanked by twin waisted cylindrical ink wells with engine milled foliate decoration overall, with glass liners, the shaped base with concave pen recess, on four toupie feet -- 19½in. (49.5cm.) wide
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