BY THOMAS WEEKS

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A REGENCY ORMOLU, BRONZE AND BLACK MARBLE INKSTAND
By Thomas Weeks
The black cut-cornered plinth with a rope-twist border surmounted by a turned ink-well decorated with a foliate entrelac band and with a hinged flower-head lid, enclosing a blue-glass liner, flanked by a tree-stump inscribed 'WEEKS'S/RL. MUSEUM/Tichborne/St.' and with a pitcher resting on top, flanked by a chained dog, the end of the chain with two seals
5½ in. (14 cm.) wide; 5½ in. (14 cm.) high; 3¼ in. (8 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

This ink-tray, conceived in the French antique style, comprises a Grecian pedestal-supported ewer for the quill-pen, while the seals are guarded by a faithful hound in the Egyptian manner. It was made by the jeweller, Thomas Weeks (d. 1834) who established a 'Royal Mechanical Museum' or emporium in Tichbourne Street during the early 19th Century. An almost identical inkwell although with a white marble base, was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 5 July 1991, lot 25.

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