A NAPOLEON III ORMOLU-MOUNTED CUT BRASS, PEWTER AND TORTOISESHELL- INLAID EBONY UPRIGHT PIANO
THE ART-CASE BY MONBRO, PARIS, THE MOVEMENT BY ERARD, SERIAL NUMBER 24207, CIRCA 1855
Inlaid overall with arabesques and colored flower-heads, the hinged lid above a framed frieze centered with a female mask and pair of twin-light candelabra, flanked by a pair of music-making putti, over a hinged key-board cover inscribed to the underside Erard, the paneled sides with ram-headed volutes, supported by cherub mask-headed monopodiae with claw feet, on a shaped plinth with foliate-cast rim, the reverse of the bronzes stamped MONBRO, the interior movement variously stamped 24207
44 5/8 in. (113.4 cm.) high, 62¼ in. (158.1 cm.) wide, 24 in. (61 cm.) deep
A NAPOLEON III ORMOLU-MOUNTED CUT BRASS, PEWTER AND TORTOISESHELL- INLAID EBONY UPRIGHT PIANO
THE ART-CASE BY MONBRO, PARIS, THE MOVEMENT BY ERARD, SERIAL NUMBER 24207, CIRCA 1855
Inlaid overall with arabesques and colored flower-heads, the hinged lid above a framed frieze centered with a female mask and pair of twin-light candelabra, flanked by a pair of music-making putti, over a hinged key-board cover inscribed to the underside Erard, the paneled sides with ram-headed volutes, supported by cherub mask-headed monopodiae with claw feet, on a shaped plinth with foliate-cast rim, the reverse of the bronzes stamped MONBRO, the interior movement variously stamped 24207
44 5/8 in. (113.4 cm.) high, 62¼ in. (158.1 cm.) wide, 24 in. (61 cm.) deep
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