A FINE GEORGE III SILVER-GILT INKSTAND

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A FINE GEORGE III SILVER-GILT INKSTAND
MAKER'S MARK OF DIGBY SCOTT & BENJAMIN SMITH, LONDON, 1804

Rectangular, on four paw feet, with two bifurcating snake handles, the three pots each vase-form with acanthus on a matted ground, the fluted removable covers with bud finial surmounting a calyx of acanthus, with three glass inserts with silver-gilt mounts for ink and pounce, fully marked and stamped under base RUNDELL BRIDGE & RUNDELL AURIFICES REGIS LONDINI FECERUNT
length over handles 13½in. (34.3cm.); 65oz. (2034gr.)

Provenance

Garrard & Co., Ltd., London

Lot Essay

A similar inkstand, a presentation piece from George III, by Wakelin and Tayler, 1790, is illustrated in Michael Clayton, The Collector's Dictionary of the Silver and Gold of Great Britain and North America, rev. edn., 1984, p. 216, fig. 312.