A painted tôle, porcelain-and lacquer-mounted gilt-bronze encrier in Louis XV style

with an inkpot and sander and later glass liners, together with a porcelain mounted gilt-bronze bouillotte lamp, in Louis XV style, with two scrolled candlebranches

Encrier: Gilding more golden natural and attractive than the catalogue photograph and with some minor surface dirt. Some very miniscule chips to the porcelain flowers. Bouillottte lamp: Silk shade is wobbly and needs tightening up and is stained. Some of the porcelain flowers may be replacements and there are some miniscule chips and other chips to the flowers.
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