Inkstand
Category
Desktop & office
Date
Unknown
Materials
Amboyna and Ormolu
Measurements
275 mm (Width)
Collection
Saltram, Devon
NT 871338
Summary
Stand; Inkstand - An early 19th century inkstand, veneered in amboyna wood and mounted in ormolu. Fitted with a well for pens, two ormolu inkwells with fretted tops and a central saucer-shaped fitting mounted on an owl of the same metal. One long pen drawer in the side.
Provenance
At Saltram by 1957 and given to NT by Montagu Brownlow Parker (1878-1962), 5th Earl of Morley as part of the Endowment