Lot 5
5
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A REGENCY GILT-COPPER AND EBONISED INKSTAND, the rectangular top with moulded bead-and-laurel edge with two dished pen-trays, centred by a chamber candlestick with gadrooned edge and turned shaft, the scroll handle with removable conical snuffer, flanked by associated hobnail-cut glass wells with turned pierced covers, one with berry finial, the bombé front, back and sides each centred by a lion-mask and ring handle, the front with cedar-lined drawer, on flexed naturalistic legs headed by leaf-mounted scroll angles and on paw feet, one finial lacking

Details
A REGENCY GILT-COPPER AND EBONISED INKSTAND, the rectangular top with moulded bead-and-laurel edge with two dished pen-trays, centred by a chamber candlestick with gadrooned edge and turned shaft, the scroll handle with removable conical snuffer, flanked by associated hobnail-cut glass wells with turned pierced covers, one with berry finial, the bombé front, back and sides each centred by a lion-mask and ring handle, the front with cedar-lined drawer, on flexed naturalistic legs headed by leaf-mounted scroll angles and on paw feet, one finial lacking
13¼in. (33.5cm.) wide; 8½in. (21.5cm.) high; 11½in. (29cm.) deep (6)

Lot Essay

A very similar example from Harewood House, Yorkshire, was sold by the Trustees of the Harewood Charitable Trust, in these Rooms, 10 April 1986, lot 58. Another was sold at Christie's South Kensington, 21 November 1990, lot 161

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