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Inkwell
Inkwell, the body made from a cup, soft-paste porcelain, with high curving sides; the cup decorated in enamels with transverse bands of green picked out with gilt alternating with sprays of flowers. The cup mounted in ormolu to form the inkwell, standing on a solid ormolu base with foliate moulding and four scroll legs, two dolphin supports to either side of the cup, and around the top an ormolu collar with raised moulded scrolls at the rim and in the centre a round hole into which slots a solid ormolu stopper surmounted by the figure of a putto.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 37047
Creation/Production
Sèvres
FONTAINE, Jaques
Acquisition
Purchase, 22/9/1948
Measurements
Height
(cm): 14
Length
(cm): 9.8
Width
(cm): 7.2
Height
(in): 5
Length
(in): 3
Width
(in): 2
Techniques
Wheel-thrown
Forming
Applied Art
Cast
Forming
Applied Art
Assembled
Forming
Applied Art
Enamelled
Decoration
Applied Art
Gilded
Decoration
Applied Art
Glazed
Decoration
Applied Art
Material
Soft-paste porcelain
Ormolu
Location
In store
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