FINE AND SUBSTANTIAL CONTINENTAL PATINATED BRONZE AND ITALIAN SERPENTINE MARBLE DESK STAND

FINE AND SUBSTANTIAL CONTINENTAL PATINATED BRONZE AND ITALIAN SERPENTINE MARBLE DESK STAND, late 19th century, surmounted by a model of a seated and classically draped maiden, perhaps Cleopatra, looking down at a hand mirror, on a klismos stool; flanked to each side by inset inkwells with domed and foliate cast covers; the shaped base with pen recess, raised on four toupie feet, 36cm high, 60cm wide, 35.5cm deep