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A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED TORTOISESHELL AND BLACK MARBLE INKSTAND

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A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED TORTOISESHELL AND BLACK MARBLE INKSTAND

The rectangular top with a central dish and two scarabs to each corner, before a kneeling maiden holding two vine-cast cornucopiae terminating in swan's heads and in detachable wells with chevron base, one with pierced lidded top with Vitruvian-scroll, to the back with two gadrooned urn-shaped candlesticks, above a long cedar-lined drawer with lion-mask ring-handle and a moulded base, on bun feet, one lid lacking, to the underside, with remains of printed label FRAGILE
12in. (30.5cm.) wide

拍品專文

This design of inkstand derives from a French Empire prototype (see: Connaissance des Arts, Le Dix-neuvième Siècle Français, Paris, 1957, p. 150, fig. 1).
A related inkstand was anonymously sold in these Rooms, 6 July 1995, lot 2