Lot 321
321
Property of A WASHINGTON COLLECTOR
A REGENCY SILVER INKSTAND

Details
A REGENCY SILVER INKSTAND
MAKER'S MARK OF MATTHEW BOULTON, BIRMINGHAM, 1817

Oblong, on four paw, shell, flowerhead and scroll feet, the gadrooned rim with alternating shell and scroll decoration, with three cylindrical pots with domed covers and bud finials, the central pot engraved with a coat-of-arms on each side, the covers engraved with a crest, fully marked--10 1/4in. (26cm.)
(27oz., 855gr.)

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Cazalet impaling those of Cazalet, as borne by Peter Clement Cazalet, Russian consul at Brighton, born in 1785, who married on March 30, 1818, Olympia, his distant cousin and daughter of Peter Cazalet of Halstead Place. He died in 1859.