A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND BARDIGLIO MARBLE INK STAND with a draped and helmeted figure of Minerva seated on a rock and holding her shield, the oval base with three-quarter gallery and two swagged chamfered lidded rim-shaped wells each cast with laurel and part-fluted, flanking a later laurel-cast bell with baluster handle and on a laurel-bound stand, the frieze with swagged drapery and on turned feet, the feet stamped S and the underside inscribed in ink S