AN ORMOLU MOUNTED PATINATED BRONZE 'INKSTAND', ATTRIBUTED TO VULLIAMY, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

AN ORMOLU MOUNTED PATINATED BRONZE 'INKSTAND'ATTRIBUTED TO VULLIAMY, EARLY 19TH CENTURYSet on a white marble drum plinth11cm highNote the inkstand decorated with sphynxes supplied in 1810 to George, Prince of Wales for Carlton House (Geoffrey de Bellaigue, 'The Vulliamys and France', Furniture History, 1967, plate 12A).Another inkwell of this model, with a different lid and squirrel finial, Christie's London, Chieveley House, 19 March 2020, part lot 280See also Christie's London, Longleat, 13 June 2002, lot 304, for a mantel clock with a related satyr mount.

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