Desk Accessories

An unusual gilt and silvered brass and mother-of-pearl inkstand, French, circa 1880

formed as two plantain leaves and two coiled serpents guarding a gilt-metal mounted lidded glass ink bottle and an oval mother of pearl pin tray together with a Victorian papier-mâché and mother-of-pearl inlaid pen tray and inkwell base and a cast brass ornament in the form of a seated robed figure with broad rim hat

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the inkwell, wide 25.5cm., 10in.

the tray-base, wide 28cm., 11in.

the brass figure, high 15cm., 6in.