A REGENCY BRASS-INLAID AND BRASS-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD INKSTAND

BY R. DALTON

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A REGENCY BRASS-INLAID AND BRASS-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD INKSTAND
By R. Dalton
Inlaid overall with scrolling foliage, the moulded rectangular top with turned spindle carrying-handle, two dished pen-trays, a lidded box flanked on each side by a glass ink-pot with hinged top, above a conformingly-inlaid frieze, with mahogany-lined frieze drawer, on gadrooned bun feet, with blue paper maker's label to the inside of the drawer 'R DALTON Portable Writing Desk Fancy Cabinet and Pocket Book Manufacturer Counters Nos. 139, 740, 741, 742, 743 & 744 & at 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 237, Ground Floor BAZAAR, SOHO SQUARE. Ladies Toilet & Scent Bottles, Fancy Cutlery & c.'
13 in. (33 cm.) wide; 6 in. (15 cm.) high; 10¼ in. (26 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The only R. Dalton in The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, Leeds, 1986, is the chairmaker Robert Dalton recorded in 1803, who subscribed to Thomas Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary. It seems probable that R. Dalton is a relation of Thomas Dalton, a writing-desk and dressing-case maker, recorded in London between 1829 and 1839 (ibid, p. 225).

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