A LATE VICTORIAN WHITE-METAL MOUNTED EBONY SARCOPHAGUS INKSTAND

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A LATE VICTORIAN WHITE-METAL MOUNTED EBONY SARCOPHAGUS INKSTAND
The rectangular pyramidal top with an urn finial, enclosing a fitted interior with three associated cut-glass pots, two with plain tops, one with a pierced top, with a plaque engraved 'ET IN ARCADIA EGO', on fluted serpentine legs with lion-paw feet flanking square fluted columns, on a rectangular plinth base
9 in. (23 cm.) high; 8 in. (20.5 cm.) wide; 4½ in. (11.5 cm.) deep

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The urn-capped Roman 'arca' or sarcophagus of 'Grecian'-black ebony is inspired by the celebrated 'tomb of Agrippa' of the Pantheon, and appropriate for an inkstand, it incorporates a tablet evoking the poets' paradise and bearing the cult phrase of the 18th Century elegiac tradition, which was translated as 'I too [the inhabitant of the tomb], was once in Arcady'.

A related sacrophagus-inkstand, executed in engraved brass, amboyna and ebony, was exhibited by Randolph at the Grosvenor House Antiques Fair, June 1991.