Vente aux enchères en direct 1186The Collection of Professor Sir Albert Richardson, P.R.A.
A REGENCY ORMOLU DOLPHIN INKSTAND
Lot 62

A REGENCY ORMOLU DOLPHIN INKSTAND

EARLY 19TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF THOMAS MESSENGER & SONS

Fermé19 September 2013

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A REGENCY ORMOLU DOLPHIN INKSTAND
EARLY 19TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF THOMAS MESSENGER & SONS
The hinged scallop-shell with wells and recesses to the interior, on a green variegated marble square section base with foliate collar
7½ in. (19 cm.) high; the base 5½ in. (14 cm.) square

Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966), Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire, by whom given to Professor Sir Albert Richardson P.R.A circa 1955.

Note du spécialiste

Thomas Messengers and Sons were adept at producing fine bronze and ormolu domestic objects. They were primarily lamp manufacturers and had a metal foundry in Birmingham (see C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, Leeds, 1998, p. 606, cat. no. 733).
A similar dolphin-borne 'shell' inkstand was sold Michael Lipitch Collection, Sotheby's London, 22 May 1998, lot 24 (£ 18,400 incl.). Another is illustrated in N. Penny, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1992, vol. II. p. 202, cat. no. 415.