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19th Century, with two brass capped cut-glass inkwells, cen-
tral carrying handle, frieze drawer and on brass ball feet, with
a label “The Lord Chancellor’s (First Lord Plunket born 1765)
inkstand from Ballymascanlon”.
32 x 26cm
Provenance: St Anne’s, Clontarf
William Conyngham Plunket was a successful lawyer and
occupied all the high offices, being Solicitor and Attorney
General, Chief Justice of the Court of
Common Pleas and in 1830, Lord Chancellor of
Ireland. He built Old Connaught, near Bray Co. Wicklow.
Ballymascanlon came into the Plunket’s possession through
the marriage of his son Thomas to Louisa Foster.
€ 1,000 - 1,500
with fluted bodies raised on square platforms.
98cm tall
€ 600 - 900
the twin scroll branches supported on a circular
tapering column with applied leaf motifs raised on
square platform base and having glass bead pen-
dants. 39cm high
€ 800 - 1,000