CIRCA 1820, INCISED P.D.

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A Paris inkwell
Circa 1820, incised P.D.
With a wine barrel on a richly gilt wheel-barrow, a white biscuit winged Cupid pouring wine from its tap into a gilt bucket with an amatory trophy, a gilt amphora-shaped vase and shell nearby, on a richly gilt oval plinth edged with white anthemion and flowerheads, on four claw and ball feet (minute chip to tap of barrel, plinth with very slight areas of rubbing to gilding, minute areas of wear to gilding)
6 in. (15.2 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

See the very similar Paris inkwell from Flahaut Collection sold in these Rooms on 12th June 1995, lot 564 (part), and see Régine de Plinval de Guillebon, Paris Porcelain 1770-1850 (1972), no. 122 for a Dagoty inkwell of similar type but different form.

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