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Inkstand

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Of shaped oblong form raised on four cast scroll feet, applied with cast dentilated borders with acanthus at intervals, a female mask at each end and smaller masks against rocaille at each corner, with three circular depressions enclosed a border of small circles and flanked by two shaped oblong pen trays, all enclosed by flat-chased foliate strapwork and rocaille borders enclosing panels of granulation and diaperwork; fitted with two cylindrical pots, each on cast spreading dentilated bases, the sides flat-chased with shaped panels of scrolls and stylized acanthus on a granulated ground, with removable dentilated covers, one pierced with a continuous trellis pattern; the other pieced with five nib holes between flat-chased trelliswork and bellflowers; the center with a cast handbell with conforming decorations; each pen tray engraved with a coat of arms within an asymmetrical scroll cartouche and drapery mantling.
Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts Archibald Alexander Hutchinson New York; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum 1949. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of Archibald Alexander Hutchinson
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Title: Inkstand
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Of shaped oblong form raised on four cast scroll feet, applied with cast dentilated borders with acanthus at intervals, a female mask at each end and smaller masks against rocaille at each corner, with three circular depressions enclosed a border of small circles and flanked by two shaped oblong pen trays, all enclosed by flat-chased foliate strapwork and rocaille borders enclosing panels of granulation and diaperwork; fitted with two cylindrical pots, each on cast spreading dentilated bases, the sides flat-chased with shaped panels of scrolls and stylized acanthus on a granulated ground, with removable dentilated covers, one pierced with a continuous trellis pattern; the other pieced with five nib holes between flat-chased trelliswork and bellflowers; the center with a cast handbell with conforming decorations; each pen tray engraved with a coat of arms within an asymmetrical scroll cartouche and drapery mantling.

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