Bronze Feather Pen in Malachite Base

Art glass hand-carved, pen holder / paper weight featuring etched linear motif and layered red glass stripe by Jiri Jelinek. Jiri Jelinek (b. 1967, Czechoslovakia) graduated with ...

1870s French bronze and enamel inkwell set. 6 pieces. Painted portraits.

Glass paperweight signed Joel Philip Myers 1968.

Art Nouveau brass desk lamp with attached tray.

Set of 1920s carved soapstone bookends.

19century English balancing scale.

This luxurious encrier de bureau is raised on scrolling and leafy feet mounting a malachite-finished base. The tray itself is modelled as a shell rising to a spring-loaded pen holder...

A real statement piece! An Art Deco malachite with brass three pen holder. France, circa 1930s.

This is an early 20th century highly decorative French gilt bronze, malachite and faux malachite inkstand with dual inkwells. The base is a mix of faux malachite and malachite veneer...

French pen holder, in Malachite. It has been done in France circa 1960. Green color, can hold two Pen.

Vintage Paperweight Feather in Bronze Original vintage unrestored. Original patina. Multiple inscriptions + signatures in Spanish 9.5 w x 1.88 d ...

Malachite is one of Russia’s most prestigious stones, and its use in the creation of this rare and opulent inkwell indicates commission and ownership by an individual of considerable status. Wonderful doré bronze accents are the perfect complement to the vivid green stone. Two dipping wells and pen tray make this inkwell as functional as it is beautiful, circa 1890. Dimensions: 18 1/4” wide x 11” deep x 5 1/2” high. The 19th century proved to be the golden age of Russian malachite. The stone became a sign of prestige and a token of wealth so much so that Russian papers of the time wrote: “To afford having a big piece wrought in malachite is synonymous to owning diamonds.” Due to malachite's relatively close proximity, Russian tsars could easily obtain the malachite they needed to decorate their lavish palaces, such as the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, paneling walls and commissioning beautiful inlaid works of art. Year after year the Russian (Romanov) treasury paid increasingly unreasonable prices to hoard the best malachite, much of which went into Romanov palaces and extravagant objects d’art. The Hermitage Museum possesses a collection of over 200 examples of this “palatial” malachite...