A RARE DUTCH SILVER INKSTAND
MARK OF LAMBRECHT VAN DER WOORD, VLISSINGEN, 1785
Shaped oblong with openwork skirt, with two pots and central ink-bottle with hinged cover, with further supports for a taperstick and a pair of snuffers, applied with cartouche cast with a cypher below a marquess' coronet, engraved with a coat-of-arms below a marquess' coronet, further engraved with two crests below a marquess' coronet, marked under stand, jars and ink-bottle
9 in. (23 cm.) wide
38 oz. (1,177 gr.)
The later arms are those of Grenville quartering Leofric, Temple, Brydges, Chandos and others impaling Campbell quartering Lorn and Stewart, for Richard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, as Marquess of Buckingham, later 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1797-1861) and his wife Lady Mary, daughter of John, 1st Marquess of Breadalbane, whom he married in 1819.
A RARE DUTCH SILVER INKSTAND
MARK OF LAMBRECHT VAN DER WOORD, VLISSINGEN, 1785
Shaped oblong with openwork skirt, with two pots and central ink-bottle with hinged cover, with further supports for a taperstick and a pair of snuffers, applied with cartouche cast with a cypher below a marquess' coronet, engraved with a coat-of-arms below a marquess' coronet, further engraved with two crests below a marquess' coronet, marked under stand, jars and ink-bottle
9 in. (23 cm.) wide
38 oz. (1,177 gr.)
The later arms are those of Grenville quartering Leofric, Temple, Brydges, Chandos and others impaling Campbell quartering Lorn and Stewart, for Richard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, as Marquess of Buckingham, later 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1797-1861) and his wife Lady Mary, daughter of John, 1st Marquess of Breadalbane, whom he married in 1819.
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