Object Description
Comprising one twin-bottle inkstand with central bowl, one velvet covered letter box with key, one velvet covered blotter, one paperweight cast as a dragon, one inkwell shaped as a turret with dragon finial, one bell with carved ivory handle, one pen rest, one chamber candlestick with a cast dragon handle, one tapering vase, one paper-clip with a cast dragon, two photograph frames, one candle-snuffer and one paper-knife; the inkstand and paperweight signed ‘Franz Jauner, Vienna, 1849’.
This stunning antique desk set, likely to be of important provenance, embodies the refined luxury of the 19th Century Austro-Hungarian aristocracy.