Lot Essay
This form is not recorded by Geneviève Le Duc, Porcelaine tendre de Chantilly au XVIIIe siècle (1996).
CHANTILLY
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A Chantilly ormolu-mounted ink-stand
CIRCA 1740, THE MOUNTS LATER
Details
A Chantilly ormolu-mounted ink-stand
Circa 1740, the mounts later
Of ogival form, with a central octagonal beaker painted with an Oriental standing on blue tiles surrounded by scattered insects, fitted with an ormolu well and flanked by an ormolu inkpot and cover and a sander of tapering bucket form, the top with yellow-centred blue quatrefoils on a turquoise diaper-ground edged in iron-red, the whole supported by the beaker and two tapering green and turquoise stalactite feet, the reeded ormolu top rim with a central pendant shell flanked by foliage and with a scroll and foliage pendant frieze (one stalactite foot from centre and small foot to base of beaker lacking, extended firing crack across the centre repaired, grinding to edges of porcelain recesses for inkwell and sander and slight crack to edge of one recess)
8¼in. (21cm.) wide
Circa 1740, the mounts later
Of ogival form, with a central octagonal beaker painted with an Oriental standing on blue tiles surrounded by scattered insects, fitted with an ormolu well and flanked by an ormolu inkpot and cover and a sander of tapering bucket form, the top with yellow-centred blue quatrefoils on a turquoise diaper-ground edged in iron-red, the whole supported by the beaker and two tapering green and turquoise stalactite feet, the reeded ormolu top rim with a central pendant shell flanked by foliage and with a scroll and foliage pendant frieze (one stalactite foot from centre and small foot to base of beaker lacking, extended firing crack across the centre repaired, grinding to edges of porcelain recesses for inkwell and sander and slight crack to edge of one recess)
8¼in. (21cm.) wide