A LATE EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONISED INKSTAND, the rectangular dished top with two pen-trays flanking a foliate and leopard-mask-cast handle flanked by a pair of glass wells, their lids cast with the attributes of learning, the frieze mounted with swans drinking and anthemion and foliate arabesques and enclosing a mahogany-lined drawer, upon foliate-cast claw monopodiae