James Dixon & Sons

Height x width x depth: 9 x 31.5 x 20 cm. Gross weight: 2010 g. Silver weight: 1415 g

Elegant rectangular sterling silver desk inkstand, featuring an elaborate pierced gallery around the perimeter, decorated with stylised foliate motifs, opposing scrolls and geometric latticework. The rear section features a prominent upright central ornamental panel, embellished with refined foliate and floral motifs.
The smooth surface, with slightly raised edges, accommodates two square cut-glass inkwells, decorated with deeply cut geometric facets, set in silver mounts with openwork ornamental elements and fitted with circular silver lids featuring twisted-rope borders. A longitudinal groove designed to hold a pen is recessed into the front section. The structure rests on four small shaped feet.

Sterling silver, fully hallmarked with the marks used in Sheffield, England, in 1910–1911, together with the maker's mark of James Dixon & Sons Ltd.