Collection Highlights: Inkstand, Ecritoire ‘à globes’ – Manufacture de Sèvres

Made of soft-paste porcelain, this inkstand combines all the ingenuity, technical brilliance and vibrant colours for which the Sèvres manufactory was renowned in the 18th century, and is one of the finest pieces of porcelain in the Wallace Collection. Designed by Jean-Claude Chamberlain Duplessis (c.1695-1744) and decorated with a green ground (fonds verd) used regularly at Sèvres from 1756, this inkstand can be found in the Wallace Collection’s Oval Drawing Room.

Music by David Hilowitz.

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