Antique French Ornate Dore Brass Inkwell Stand, Desk Tray, Enamel Portrait bowl The frame is also earliest

The frame is also earliest 1800s

Lemonwood is so pretty

so that soldiers could carry them easily and write their correspondence from the battlefield

probably done mid-1800s

1850-70 Napoleon III era

Antique French Ornate Dore Brass Inkwell Stand, Desk Tray, Enamel Portrait bowl The frame is also earliestA superb old mid 1800s large inkwell and desk tray all in one, this beauty is sure to thrill. It's got an ornamental cartouche which is an inset convex plaque of copper with wonderful kiln fired enamel portrait of a boy and his dog, enjoying the countryside. The scene is right out of the Romantic Era movement of the 1700s which remains popular and is best represented by the paintings by Boucher, Fragonard and others whose vibrant outdoor genre scenes