Two 19th Century drum shaped inkwells with three quill holes, the first a Stevenson and Hancock Derby, the exterior decorated with purple and burnt red hand painted feathers with blue flower heads and gilt scrolls with alternate gilt urns, the top with three pink flower heads, painted mark, height 4cm, the second a Derby decorated with pink hand painted flowers within gilt laurel leaf borders with a central floral cartouche to the front, all to a dark blue ground, faint printed Crown and D mark, height 3.2cm together with a 19th Century Staffordshire inkwell modelled as a lady sat playing her lute on a tree branch, height 10.5cm, a Staffordshire stamp wetter, a small silver inkwell, a continental inkwell with a seated lady and rabbits to the cover and a mid Century Danish Michael Andersen figure of a fisherman smoking a pipe and playing his accordion, impressed mark, height 10cm. (7)

Condition report
Stevenson and Hancock - No chips, cracks or restoration. There is some visible crazing and rubbing to the gilding. There is a firing flaw to the middle well. Derby - Diameter 6.4cm. The central inkwell has two firing flaws and several stained lines running into the body. The quill holes have several stained lines which appear in the body. There is rubbing to the gilding. Inkwell - firing lines and creases within the body, occuring from production. Some nibble losses to the encrusted flowers and rubbing to the gilding. Wetter - unmarked. Some flaws in the roller Silver inkwell - very heavily pitted and worn. Continental inkwell - rubbing to the gilding, quite considerably in places. Crudely cast Anderson figure - There is a small glaze imperfection to his right knuckle (as you look at him) and he is somewhat dusty / grubby.

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