/internal/media/dispatcher/1212752/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailInkstand1803Alexis DecaixLength x width: 31.8 x 26.7 cm (12 1/2 x 10 1/2 in.)Gilt and patinated bronze; woodGift of Horace Wood Brock2010.10390This inkstand stand belongs to a group associated with the leading bronze-mount manufacturer of the Georgian era, Alexis Decaix. It is closely related to a yew-wood version acquired by the Prince of Wales, later George IV.
The design of the mounts has strong affinities with the engravings illustrated in Thomas Hope's seminal publication, Household Furniture and Interior Decoration (1807), which includes the introductory reference:
`Throughout this vast metropolis, teeming as it does with artificers and tradesman I have, after the most laborious search, only been able to find...(one man)...to whose industry and talent I could ...confide the execution of the more enriched portion of my designs: namely Decaix...a bronzist and native of France...'
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