A fine late Victorian parcel-gilt and polychrome-painted satinwood grand piano and en suite duet stool** The case manufactured and retailed by Maple & Co., Ltd, London, The movement by Julius Blüthner & Co., Leipzig, Circa 1890-1900 In the Adam style, the quarter-veneered lid with bellflower and gilt border, the case with panelled sides decorated with floral festoons suspending musical trophies, centred by framed circular and oblong reserves depicting Classical figures, painted in the manner of Angelika Kaufmann, the music stand painted with a laurel wreath, the fingerboard with ivory keys, the backboard inscribed BLUTHNER & CO./case by MAPLE & CO. LTD , flanked by painted drapery swags suspending a pair of oval portrait medallions, the movement with raised ALIQUOT=PIANO/PATENT and J. BLüTHNER/LEIPZIG , beside a raised company seal, the soundboard with Blüthner and exhibition label, the panelled angles and base carved with lyres, urns, anthemia and paterae, above tapering panelled legs with Ionic capitals and bellflowers, joined by a stretcher, on square feet, together with a matching parcel-gilt and black-painted beige velvet-upholstered duet stool Closed: 40¼in. (102.3cm.) high; 83in. (210.8cm) wide; 62in. (157.5cm.) deep, Open: 77½in. (197cm.) high (2)
A fine late Victorian parcel-gilt and polychrome-painted satinwood grand piano and en suite duet stool** The case manufactured and retailed by Maple & Co., Ltd, London, The movement by Julius Blüthner & Co., Leipzig, Circa 1890-1900 In the Adam style, the quarter-veneered lid with bellflower and gilt border, the case with panelled sides decorated with floral festoons suspending musical trophies, centred by framed circular and oblong reserves depicting Classical figures, painted in the manner of Angelika Kaufmann, the music stand painted with a laurel wreath, the fingerboard with ivory keys, the backboard inscribed BLUTHNER & CO./case by MAPLE & CO. LTD , flanked by painted drapery swags suspending a pair of oval portrait medallions, the movement with raised ALIQUOT=PIANO/PATENT and J. BLüTHNER/LEIPZIG , beside a raised company seal, the soundboard with Blüthner and exhibition label, the panelled angles and base carved with lyres, urns, anthemia and paterae, above tapering panelled legs with Ionic capitals and bellflowers, joined by a stretcher, on square feet, together with a matching parcel-gilt and black-painted beige velvet-upholstered duet stool Closed: 40¼in. (102.3cm.) high; 83in. (210.8cm) wide; 62in. (157.5cm.) deep, Open: 77½in. (197cm.) high (2)
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