Inkstand
Category
Desktop & office
Date
Unknown
Materials
Brass and ebony
Measurements
180 mm (Height) x 265 mm (Depth); 343 mm (Length); 105 mm (Height)
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Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 532978.1
Summary
A Boulle two-bottle inkstand. A rectangular wooden ink stand with boulle decoration on the top and at each side. On four bun feet with a drawer to one side. The top is organised into five sections with a decorative cast brass handle to centre. Leaf like decoration on shoulders of the handles, curved lines. The top has two long concaved sections, either side of the handle are square inserts for the glass ink bottles. Underneath the handle is a small rectangular section with removable blotter of veneered ebony with boulle decoration (filigree) and small round handle. Includes two glass bottles, one is missing the lid.
Provenance
Presented to the National Trust by Sir Montgomerie Fairfax-Lucy (1896 – 1965), two years after the death of his father, Sir Henry Ramsay-Fairfax, 3rd Bt (1870 – 1944), with Charlecote Park and its chief contents, in 1946.