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It has been fittingly decorated in the latest neo-classical style with a running borders of laurel leaves and swagged flower garlands, typical of the restrained and pretty version of neo-classicism made popular by Queen Marie-Antoinette.  The Sèvres factory produced many items in this style, not least dinner services for the Queen and her husband, King Louis XVI in the early 1780s.  The inkstand has a cylindrical hole for the separate ink well in the centre, and applied to the exterior, vertical quill-holders shaped like quivers and elliptical containers for sponges used for wiping the tips of quill pens. \n\nThe Clignancourt porcelain factory made many luxury items of this type, often copying the more famous (and expensive) Sèvres factory. Located in the Paris suburbs, Clignancourt was set up by the entrepreneur Pierre Deruelle in about 1771.  In 1775 it received the protection of <i>Monsieur</i>, the younger brother of the King, or Louis Stanislas Xavier, Comte de Provence, to give him his full title.","physicalDescription":"Porcelain inkwell within inkstand with handle, two lips and pen-holders around the outer edge. 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