RARE Antique French Poodle Inkwell, Ink Well, Pen Stand, Silver Plate on Bronze 19th century painting The 1700s to earliest 1800

The 1700s to earliest 1800 piece is of finest quality

Slight flaws noted above

One split in the silk

The old print would date 1700s

that has been worked in the layered decorative style known as "Vernis Martin" or 'varnish Martin' taken from the Martin Brothers technique popularized during the reign of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette

RARE Antique French Poodle Inkwell, Ink Well, Pen Stand, Silver Plate on Bronze 19th century painting The 1700s to earliest 1800Charming, no? This is a mid 1800s French silver plate inkwell stand and pen holder (2) with the cutest figure of a French Poodle ever, isn't he? Heavy bronze casting that has been plated in silver (you see a little bronze peeking through on places where the old silver has been polished away). The tilt back head opens to reveal the repository for the ink pot, which would have been a small glass or ceramic insert, but we don't have the old original