A Victorian silver and cut-glass figural inkstand, John Hunt & Robert Roskell, London, 1851

A Victorian silver and cut-glass figural inkstand, John Hunt & Robert Roskell, London, 1851

in the form of a putto with lyre on a rocky base flanked by silver-capped cut-glass inkwells, all mounted on a wood base

marked throughout, the base of inkstand stamped 5803 / Hunt & Roskell / Late Storr Mortimer & Hunt, the bottle caps marked for Hunt & Roskell but with dates for 1854 and 1862

24 oz excluding wood & glass

746 g

length 10 3/4 in.

27.4 cm