Lot 5
5
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED LACQUERED-BRASS AND FRUITWOOD INKSTAND, the gadrooned rectangular top with two dished pen-trays, a central removable candlestick with gadrooned urn-shaped nozzle and spreading snuffer, flanked by two hobnail-cut glass inkwells with reeded tops and foliate-finials, the friezes centred by tamed lion-mask handles and incorporating a mahogany-lined frieze drawer on acanthus-headed claw monopodiae, the top stamped with two coats-of-arms

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A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED LACQUERED-BRASS AND FRUITWOOD INKSTAND, the gadrooned rectangular top with two dished pen-trays, a central removable candlestick with gadrooned urn-shaped nozzle and spreading snuffer, flanked by two hobnail-cut glass inkwells with reeded tops and foliate-finials, the friezes centred by tamed lion-mask handles and incorporating a mahogany-lined frieze drawer on acanthus-headed claw monopodiae, the top stamped with two coats-of-arms
12½in. (32cm.) wide; 7½in. (19cm.) high; 11in. (28cm.) deep
Provenance
Almost certainly supplied to George Pochin, Esq. (d.1831), Barkby Hall or Edmonthorpe Hall, Leicestershire

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Pochin impaling Norman, probably for George Pochin, Esq., of Barkby Hall and Edmonthorpe Hall, co. Leicester, and his wife Elizabeth, second daughter of Richard Norman, originally of Melton Mowbray, whom he married in 1811.
An inkstand of a similar but more rounded form and from Harewood House, Yorkshire, was sold in these Rooms, 10 April 1986, lot 58

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