A large bulbous inkwell, the base decorated with a gold aventurine-bodied butterfly with a red head and orange antennae. Elongated complex millefiori canes form the outstretched fore wings (orange, green & brown) and hind wings (orange, green and white). The insect is set on an opaque azure ground surrounded by a continuous garland of green & white cog canes. The same cog canes form a garland around the blue ground of the stopper, which has a single red, white & green complex cane in the centre. Scratched on the outer edge of the flat, polished base is the signature: P. Ysart. The glass has a marked yellowish tinge. (Attributed to the 1940s/50s Moncrieff period).
Onion-spire Inkwell (PY cane)
Inkwell with Millefiori Base
