It is clear that Paul Crespin retailed work from Lamerie's workshop, as this inkstand adds to a small group of similarly over-struck pieces which includes a coffee pot of 1730 in a private American collection and the celebrated wine coolers made in 1727 for the Earl of Chesterfield, now divided between the Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Galleries of Scotland.

The distinctive lion's paw feet on this inkstand are found on a shaped circular dish by Lamerie of 1738 formerly in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, sold by Christie's, London, December 17, 1986, lot 211 and another example of the same year in the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts (see Beth S. Carver and Eileen M. Casey, Silver by Paul de Lamerie at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, no. 15.