South African Art, Jewellery and Decorative Arts
Live Auction, 4 February 2013
Decorative Arts
Lot Estimate
ZAR 12 000 - 15 000
About this Item
An early Victorian engraved gilt-metal and hardstone-mounted inkstand and pen-rest, circa 1839
the octagonal ink-well with inscribed hinged lapis lazuli cover, enclosing a glazed hair compartment and later glass ink-well, the whole engraved with floral and foliate motifs, the square base with four cabochon-cut lapis lazuli stones, on winged caryatid feet, central stone cracked, 7cm high; the rectangular pen-rest fitted with a frieze drawer, embellished with hardstones and raised on scroll feet, 11cm wide
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