The inkstand is fitted with two pen rests and three silver-gilt mounted glass bottles for ink and pounce, each engraved with the Exeter arms below a marquess’s coronet. Pounce, derived from the word pumice, and usually made from powdered cuttlefish bone, was sprinkled to dry ink when writing.
Categories: Exhibitions | Silver & plated wares | The Victorians at Burghley |
A George IV silver-gilt inkstand, by Robert Garrard, London,1824.
REFERENCE: SIL04665
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