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A GEORGE IV BRASS-INLAID TORTOISESHELL DESK-SET
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A GEORGE IV BRASS-INLAID TORTOISESHELL DESK-SET

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A GEORGE IV BRASS-INLAID TORTOISESHELL DESK-SET
Of canted-rectangular form, with two recess for ink-pots and two scooped pen-trays, above a cavetto cornice and waved friezes on each side, the angles with recumbent bulls, lacking inkwells
3½ in. (9 cm.) high; 14½ in. (37 cm.) wide; 10¾ in. (27.5 cm.) deep
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The French-fashioned ink-stand of tortoiseshell with arabesque boulle inlay, has its 'cut' corners guarded by recumbent Egyptian bronze Apis bulls derived from the celebrated antiquity in the Vatican's 'Room of the Animals'. They reflect the antique fashion popularised by G. B. Piranesi's Diverse maniere d'adornare i cammini, Rome, 1769. Related caryatic bulls feature on a Piranesian bronze and marble centre-piece executed in 1811 by the Rome bronze-founders F. and L. Righetti (A. Gonzalez-Palacios, Il Gusto dei Principi, vol II, Milan, 1993, fig. 536).