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Writing — Inkwells & inkstands - Recreations & Pursuits - Philips Auctions Australia
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| Number of lots recorded: | 32 |
| Lots with images: | 32 |
| Prices available: | 32 |
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Writing - Inkwells & inkstands
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| *** | A French Louis XVI silver snake handled inkstand, 1777 Paris, with maker's mark FDR and later import marks for London 1953 by the London Assay office, a shaped scroll footed tray with a lead lined ink pot, powder caster and circular bowl, engraved with a… | *** |  |
| *** | A transitional Georgian/Victorian sterling silver inkwell desk set, 1837 Sheffield, with maker's marks for Henry Wilkinson & Co, some rubbed. Well cast and chased in the rococo revival manner, with a rectangular shaped base embellished with scrolls and… | *** |  |
| *** | An elegant Napoleon III enamelled inkwell, circa 1860, the shallow ovoid tray set within a gilded ormolu surround and with lidded inkwell to back all enamelled in a turquoise blue and with dainty white floral motifs throughout. Height 10 cm. Width 18 cm.… | *** |  |
| *** | An Australian themed silver-plated inkstand set, 19th century, with a fern surmounted by an emu, an aboriginal figure and a kangaroo, upon a velvet ground, with two glass inkpots and an ivory pen with a sterling mount, the whole raised on an ebonised base… | *** |  |
| *** | A French boulle inkstand, later 19th century, with two inkwells and curved compartments for writing accessories, profusely brass inlaid in the Berainesque manner to the scarlet ground, further decorated with rope twist and guilloche band and trims,… | *** |  |
| *** | A Georgian-style sterling silver ink stand, goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company, London, 1912/3, the removable cut-crystal bottle with a silver collar and hinged cap resting on a rectangular footed stand with pen rest, cast foliate details to edges.… | *** |  |
| *** | A fine signed Austrian bronze owl three piece Deskset, early 20th century, signed Binks, Vienna, with a sculptural well for pens and an integral hinged inkwell hidden within a rock, and a separate blotter, both cast with owls with glass eyes in… | *** |  |
| *** | A silver-plate ink stand in the Georgian manner, Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company, London, early 20th century, the rectangular tray stand on foliate feet fitted with a pair of removable cut-glass ink bottles with dish caps flanking a cylindrical… | *** |  |
| *** | An Edwardian sterling silver inkwell set, 1904 London, maker's mark for Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co Ltd; J Batson & Son, a shaped rectangular tray delicately bright cut with festoons, an applied border and raised on paw feet, supporting a glass ink pot… | *** |  |
| *** | An Empire style marble and ormolu inkwell, late 19th to early 20th century, the circular well, with a shaped collar to an acanthus cast lid with pinecone finial, the body with cast garlands, four shaped legs with pinecone and leaf forms upon key fret… | *** |  |
| *** | An Edwardian silver plated lion presentation inkwell, circa 1902, with rubbed registration lozenge, a well cast crowned lion sejant erect upon a tapering circular base holding a shield between its front paws inscribed, 'To Lily, on the Occasion of Her… | *** |  |
| *** | Two Victorian ink well sets, silver plate & sterling silver. Later 19th century, with beaver and initial mark for Maxfield & Sons, Sheffield, and; 1898 & 1899 Sheffield, with maker's mark for Roberts & Belk. Aplated desk set with a pierced and galleried… | *** |  |
| *** | Two sterling silver Inkwells, 1911 Chester, with maker's mark for James Deakin & Sons (hexagonal inkwell), 1905 London, with maker's mark for Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Co, an hexagonal tapering well with a hinged lid and weighted base; the other near… | *** |  |
| *** | A Victorian Mappin & Webb silver plated Indian elephant head novelty inkwell, later 19th century, marked EPBM Sheffield & London, numbered 5198, the realistically cast head of an ornately caparisoned elephant surmounted by a monkey finial, hinged and… | *** |  |
| *** | A gilt bronze and marble ink stand late, 19th century, the bronze ink well with a hinged domed cover and stylized foliate decoration on a veined black marble base moulded with a pen rest, on small brass feet. Height 7 cm. Width 13 cm. Depth 13 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A sterling silver ink-stand, Martin Hall & Company Ltd, Sheffield, 1911/12, the hinged square cover enclosing a pot (lacking liner) raised on a weighted square base with out-swept sides, ball finials to the front corners forming a pen rest, height 5.5 cm.… | *** |  |
| *** | A sterling silver inkwell, circa 1923-24, Martin Hall & Co. Ltd, Sheffield, the square base with concave sides towards a small square top lidded well and with pen rest to the front. Stamped to front and with inscription to lid 'From J&B 1905-1930'. Weight… | *** |  |
| *** | A large and heavy gauge crystal ink well, early 20th century, a square inkwell decorated to each face with radiating motifs and having a hinged brass domed lid, supported in a crystal tray of conforming design with, channels for pens, height 17 cm, length… | *** |  |
| *** | A Victorian sterling silver inkwell stand & a pair of specimen vases. 1899 Birmingham, with maker's mark for Johnson, Durban & condition report available. 1903 Birmingham, with maker's mark for Boardman, Glossop & Co Ltd, the elegant boat… | *** |  |
| *** | A late Victorian ink stand, the crystal bottle with hinged cap set into a metal plinth with an engraved presentation inscription dated 1886, on an oak base with pen rests. Height 15 cm. Width and depth 18 cm | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco spelter squirrel inkwell set, circa 1920s, the export ware set featuring a stylised squirrel eating a nut beside a small, hinged square pot upon a portoro marble base with a shallow channel for pens, height 12 cm, length 18 cm, width 11 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A cast brass ink stand, late 19th/early 20th century, in the Louis XV manner, the shaped base supporting a pair of ink wells, each with a hinged domed cover (one hinge broken), and a up-swept back forming a pen rest, relief-cast throughout with C-scrolls… | *** |  |
| *** | A James Deakin & Sons silver plated eagle inkwell, circa 1880, the eagle with spread wings standing above a rocky out crop set with a hinged lid opening to reveal a porcelain ink well. Height 19 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Four sterling silver desk accessories: two Blotters, a paperweight and an inkwell, 1919, 1995,1996 Birmingham, with makers' marks for Aj Zimmerman, inkwell); Whitehill Silver & Plate, blotters and paperweight, a bell shaped ink well, and three matching… | *** |  |
| *** | An English factory Chinese bowl with strainer, a Nantgarw Penholder and saucer, and a Derby crown shaped pen holder, 18th century to around 1800, a small bowl with famille rose decoration of a girl in a garden, with a loose fitting pierced strainer lid,… | *** |  |
| *** | An antique brass inkwell in the French manner, mid 19th century, the shaped rectangular inkwell with a decorative rear gallery with scrolling and pierced elements supporting side candleholders, with a pen well, two cast inkwells with acanthus and stiff… | *** |  |
| *** | An Arts & Crafts silver and glass inkwell, early 20th century, marked sterling, the circular dish with a pierced ribbon motif to the border and embossed with fruits, a square solid light blue glass well to the centre; stamped sterling underside. Silver… | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco spelter bear ink well, circa 1930, the walking polar bear in deep bronze tone beside a shaped box with geometric design serving as the inkwell, with ceramic insert, raised on a grey and black marble base. Height 8.5 cm, length 19.5 cm, width 8… | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco spelter and marble ink well, circa 1930, a small bird beside a shaped box serving as the inkwell, with glass insert, and mounted on a yellow ochre marble base, with recessed section for pens, height 12.5 cm, length 23.5 cm, width 14 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A French faience inkwell, circa 1950s, rectangular with a curvaceous front section, with lidded compartments and provision for pens, and decorated with a textured glazing and sgraffito floral imagery upon an aqua ground. height 12.5 cm. Width 34.5 cm.… | *** |  |
| *** | A painted porcelain ink stand in the rococo manner, with a pair of ink pots, one covered, flanking a floral centre-piece and shell-shaped dish, white-glazed with coloured and gilt details, unidentified blue mark underside. Height 12 cm. Width 25 cm. Depth… | *** |  |
| *** | A George III-style silver-plated ink stand James Deakin & Sons, Sheffield, early, 20th century, the rectangular stand with a pair of recesses for ink bottles (lacking) flanking a central handle, a pen rest to the rear, on moulded bracket feet. Height 7 cm… | *** |  |