Lot 80
80
A FRENCH SILVER-GILT AND CUT-GLASS INKSTAND
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION 
A FRENCH SILVER-GILT AND CUT-GLASS INKSTAND

MARK OF FROMENT-MEURICE, PARIS, CIRCA 1880

Details
A FRENCH SILVER-GILT AND CUT-GLASS INKSTAND
MARK OF FROMENT-MEURICE, PARIS, CIRCA 1880
On shaped rectangular base with six lion's-paw feet, with central cut-glass casket on four shell feet, with anthemion and foliage mounts, with removable liner fitted with two silver-mounted glass inkwells and a cylindrical pounce pot, the slightly domed cover chased with acanthus and laurel and surmounted by a shell finial, the casket flanked by two demi-swans displayed, each supporting a columnar candlestick, marked on the rim of base and cover, on candlestick base, under liner, and on sand-pot
15 in. (38 cm.) long
Provenance
Christie's, New York, 16 April 1999, lot 146

Lot Essay

The renowned nineteenth-century jeweler and goldsmithing firm, Froment-Meurice, was founded by François Désiré Froment-Meurice (1802-55) and continued by his son Emile (1837-1913). In 1867, an English jeweler described Mons. Froment-Meurice's establishment as "one of the first houses in Paris" adding that its silver "was in the very best style . . . beautiful in the design, and nicely executed." (John Culme, Nineteenth Century Silver, 1977, p. 44, and Vanessa Brett, The Sotheby's Directory of Silver, 1986, p. 382).

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