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Black Marble Inkstand with Bronze Ducks

Categories Figural - Animals & Living Creatures
Type Duck
Material Bronze, Marble
Manufacturer Undetermined
Origin France
Date or Era circa 1920
Measuring 16 ½” x 11” x 6 ½” high

Black marble inkstand featuring two ducks with bone beaks, as though perched at the side of a pond (pen tray).  This objet d’arte has two square inkwells with glass liners. André Villien, a French sculptor who worked in Paris between 1905 and 1924, may be the artist, but the piece is unsigned.

Estimated value: $400

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