£50
A 19TH CENTURY BRONZE COPY OF PETRATCH'S INKSTAND
modelled upon three paw feet, the body with cherub masks, holding the original glass inkwell, the lid with a seated cupid, and the underside with poem 'By beauty won from soft Italia’s land,
Here Cupid, Petrarch’s Cupid, takes his stand.
Arch suppliant, welcome to thy favourite isle,
Close thy spread wings, and rest thee here awhile;
Still the true heart with kindred strains inspire,
Breathe all a poet’s softness, all his fire;
But if the perjur’d knight approach this fount,
Forbid the words to come as they were wont,
Forbid the ink to flow, the pen to write,
And send the false one baffled from thy sight', 17cm high
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