Lot 353
353
AN EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND EBONY-VENEERED ENCRIER
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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND EBONY-VENEERED ENCRIER

CIRCA 1805

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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND EBONY-VENEERED ENCRIER
CIRCA 1805
With drawer to side
9½ in. (24 cm.) high; 12¼ in. (31 cm.) wide; 9 in. (22.9 cm.) deep
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

The Grecian-black inkstand (plateau-écritoire), serving as an ornamental garniture for a desk, is richly sculpted in the 'antique' fashion promoted by C. Percier and P. Fontaine's Recueil de Décorations Intérieures, 1801; and evokes the poetry-deity Apollo with its swan-guarded urn and baskets. Such decorative objets d'art were a speciality of the Parisian art-dealers (marchands merciers) such as Martin-Eloi Lignereux (d.1809) of the rue Saint-Honoré, who was patronised by a number of the British, such as Lord Elgin.

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