"Bronze Desk Kit With Crowned C Regency Period Early 18th Century"
Rare office kit in gilded bronze with traces of silvering, including an ink pot, a sand pot, a removable bell on the sponge bowl, presented on a tray molded with contour fillets resting on four spinning top feet, the elements are removable and fixed by ratchets certain elements bear the hallmark with the crowned C which was applied from 1745 to 1749 by the royalty office of rue Cul de sac des Bourbonnais in Les Halles on any work, particularly bronze, sold during these four years, especially any NEW OR D item USED our inkwell is from the Regency period therefore older, and was therefore sold second hand between 1745 etc1749 length 31 width 20cm height 18 cm