Foliate Sterling Silver Standish with Ink Bottles
A sterling silver standish, well decorated with foliate openwork, raised on scroll feet, including two ink bottles, one lid hinged detached, C. S. Harris & Sons Ltd, London 1904. Weight base 731g. Length base 10.24 in.
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- Standish - Although the word is little used nowadays, a standish is an inkstand on feet and usually in silver or silver plate, containing some of the following: inkwells, a pounce pot, a sealing wax container and a pen rest. Standishes are also found in less common materials including boulle, marble, brass and wood.
- Foliate - Decorated with leaves or leaf-like forms.
- Sterling Silver - Sterling silver is a mixture of 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% of another metal, usually copper. Fine silver is 99.9% pure silver, and is relatively soft and the addition of the very small amount of copper gives the metal enough strength and hardness to be worked into jewellery, decorative and household objects.
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