A REGENCE BRASS-INLAID BROWN TORTOISESHELL AND GILT-BRONZE ENCRIER, the raised dished pen-tray enclosing a red leather-lined well flanked by four inkwells in the form of neo-classical urns with berried finials and stiff-leaf domed lids, the Vitruvian-scroll frieze with ring handles, the foliate cast waved frieze above a shaped apron mounted with interlaced scrolled acanthus C-scrolls and flanked by foliate arabesques, the rounded angles inlaid with brass flutes, on stiff-leaf tapering toupie feet, converted from a clock base in the late 18th or early 19th Century, the feet re-threaded, one glass well lacking | Christie's

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A REGENCE BRASS-INLAID BROWN TORTOISESHELL AND GILT-BRONZE ENCRIER, the raised dished pen-tray enclosing a red leather-lined well flanked by four inkwells in the form of neo-classical urns with berried finials and stiff-leaf domed lids, the Vitruvian-scroll frieze with ring handles, the foliate cast waved frieze above a shaped apron mounted with interlaced scrolled acanthus C-scrolls and flanked by foliate arabesques, the rounded angles inlaid with brass flutes, on stiff-leaf tapering toupie feet, converted from a clock base in the late 18th or early 19th Century, the feet re-threaded, one glass well lacking

細節

A REGENCE BRASS-INLAID BROWN TORTOISESHELL AND GILT-BRONZE ENCRIER, the raised dished pen-tray enclosing a red leather-lined well flanked by four inkwells in the form of neo-classical urns with berried finials and stiff-leaf domed lids, the Vitruvian-scroll frieze with ring handles, the foliate cast waved frieze above a shaped apron mounted with interlaced scrolled acanthus C-scrolls and flanked by foliate arabesques, the rounded angles inlaid with brass flutes, on stiff-leaf tapering toupie feet, converted from a clock base in the late 18th or early 19th Century, the feet re-threaded, one glass well lacking
15½in.(39cm.) wide; 8¼in. (21cm.) high; 8¾in. (22cm.) deep

來源

Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt., 25 Park Lane, W.1., recorded in the Oval Drawing Room in the pre-1927 inventory

拍品專文

A related base appears on a mantel clock attributed to André-Charles Boulle with figures by Nicolas Coustou, sold anonymously at Sotheby's Monaco, 3 July 1993, lot 90