A late-Victorian silver Egyptian revival inkstand

A late-Victorian silver Egyptian revival inkstand,

by Mappin and Webb, Sheffield 1896,

shaped rectangular form, with two pen wells, with a central box with a pull-off cover with a sphinx, on four paw feet, with two silver-mounted cut glass inkwells, by Henry Manton, Birmingham 1896, length 26.5cm, approx. weighable 21oz.