Polychrome porcelain inkwell from the Chantilly factory

France, Regency period
Polychrome porcelain from the Chantilly factory, adorned with chiseled and gilded bronzes

Sinuous in shape and polylobed on the sides, this inkwell presents on its tray a decoration of braces delimited by framing nets and trellises containing quatrefoils on a blue background. It rests on two legs of stylized azure rockeries as well as on a style of small octagonal bowl with so-called "Kakiemon" motifs and adorned with a character traversing a tiled floor around which insects evolve on a white background, all resting on a very small foot.
It is adorned with chiseled and gilded bronzes such as the molded frame, the circular buckets with lids - one is openwork - and their buttons as well as the octagonal main bucket, a shell-shaped apron flanked by windings and palms. , then on the other side, a longer apron with a small cartouche, valance and foliated volutes.