Georgia Inkwells

A French Napoléon III period Baccarat crystal desk inkwell from the late 19th century with Bamboo Tors décor and brass top. Enhance your desk ...

Edward Farmer Chinese Carved Jade & Agate Dragon Inkwell W/ Gold Gilt Filigree. Edward I. Farmer (1872-1942) was a well-known art dealer in New York City with over twenty-nine years of experience in the field. His galleries at 5 West Fifty-Sixth Street and 16 East Fifty-Sixth Street offered a wide variety of Chinese works of art as well as European antiques. With an interest and flair for both Eastern and Western antiques...

A vintage American rock crystal inkwell from the mid 20th century with silver plated American Waltham Watch Co. clock. Made in the USA during the first half of the 20th century, this inkwell features a rock crystal flaring body adorned with a star-shaped body at the bottom, supporting a petite clock (please note that it is not currently in working condition). Surrounded by a silver plated structure, the clock, which is the inkwell's lid, lifts up to reveal the interior. The face showcases the inscription "A.W.W. Co. Waltham Mass...

A Victorian Era, circa 1900, antique cold painted spelter (smelted and alloyed zinc) figural and sculptural inkwell depicting a seated camel. The realistically portrayed camel is sho...

A Victorian Era, circa 1900, antique cold painted spelter (smelted and alloyed zinc) figural inkwell depicting a roaring lion with front paws crossed and a lion skin rug that serves ...

An antique bronze figural and sculptural inkwell in the form of a wild boar. This work is signed Barrie and looks to be based on a design by the well known French sculptor in the animalier style, Christophe Fratin. The highly detailed and expertly cast boar is depicted with an open mouth. The top of the head opens to reveal the bronze insert for ink. This work is viewed and enjoyed from all sides and can serve as intended (an inkwell) and as a sculpture and accessory. A biography of Christophe Fratin from the National Gallery of Art website is included here, "A native of Metz, where he was born in 1801, Fratin first apprenticed with his father, a taxidermist, until about 1821, after which he shifted to a career in sculpture. He studied in his home city with sculptor Charles Augustin Pioche (1762-1839), then went to Paris and worked in the studio of Théodore Gericault, the only master he listed in the entries for his works in the Salon catalogues of the 1860s, where that information was required. He made his debut with several wax models, of a thoroughbred horse and several dogs, in the Salon of 1831, ushering in with another debutant, Antoine-Louis Barye, the golden age of animalier sculpture that year. Though never as celebrated as Barye, Fratin enjoyed greater professional and commercial success than many of his fellow animalier sculptors during the nineteenth century. He received several commissions for public sculpture in Paris and in the United States; a bronze group of two eagles and their prey is in Central Park in New York. The government also commissioned small works that were deposited throughout France in provincial museums, including Metz. Fratin gained an international reputation during his lifetime with small-scale serial work for the market, producing examples in bronze, terracotta, plaster, and even faience. Functional objects (platters and cane heads, for example) were produced as well as "pure" sculpture. The English market in particular favored Fratin's work. The sculptor commissioned established founders to execute the serial versions of his models. In the 1830s Susse Frères produced plasters for him; E. Quesnel, Braux, Richard, Eck, and Durand, and Alfred Daubrée...

An English Victorian period ram's horns inkwell from the 19th century, with metal canister. Created in England during the reign of Queen Victoria, this...

An English Victorian period silver inkwell from the 19th century, depicting a rooster. Created in England during the reign of Queen Victoria, this silver inkwell features a rooster p...

A French metal inkwell from the 19th century depicting an Indian caparisoned elephant topped with a monkey. Created in France during the 19th century, this metal inkwell captures our...

An English Victorian period inkwell from the 19th century, with silver putto, cut glass ink container and pen. Created in England during the 19th century, this inkwell features a han...

The horse hoof retaining a horse shoe with another horseshoe upright over a silvered top housing two cut glass and brass ink canisters with hinged tops and a gilded horse bust.

An English silver plate zoomorphic ink well, depicting an elephants head with a finial of a monkey playing a flute. Porcelain interior container, late 19th-early 20th century. Dimen...