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PIANO EN PARTIE DU XVIIIe SIECLE

Lot 47
16.11.2023 14:00UTC +01:00
Classic
Sold
€ 30 240
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationFrance, Paris
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ID 1058716
Lot 47 | PIANO EN PARTIE DU XVIIIe SIECLE
Estimate value
€ 7 000 – 10 000
PIANO EN PARTIE DU XVIIIe SIECLE

SIGNATURE D'ORPHEUS

En châtaigner et sapin doré et revernis, à décor peint polychrome de singes et enfants musiciens, guirlandes de fleurs et enroulements de rinceaux feuillagés, le piètement du XIXe siècle mouluré, sculpté et doré, à décor ajouré d'intruments de musique tel que des flûtes, lyres, les pieds cambrés appliqués de feuilles d'acanthe et terminés en enroulement, les pieds avants réunis par une entretoise en X centrée d'une lyre, ornementation de bronze ciselé et doré du XIXe siècle, les touches en ivoire et ébène, le couvercle orné à l'intérieur d'une huile sur bois en partie du XVIIIe siècle, représentant une scène de fête de village ; vernis usé, accidents et manques, restaurations

H.: 103 cm. (40 ½ in.) ; L.: 252 cm. (99 in.) ; P.: 124 cm. (48 ¾ in.)





Provenance

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), Salon Louis XVI, Château de Ferrières, Seine-et-Marne; puis par descendance jusqu'au propriétaire actuel.



Literature

'Château de fêtes du temps des crinolines : Ferrières’, in Plaisir de France, Décembre 1969, p. 67, no. 373.

M. Praz, An Illustrated History of Interior Decoration, From Pompeii to Art Nouveau, Milan, 1981, p. 32.

C. Frégnac et J. Wilhelm, Belles Demeures de Paris, 16e-19e siècle, Paris, 1997, p. 75.

C. de Nicolay-Mazery, Visites privées, hôtels particuliers de Paris, Paris, 1999, p. 24.



Further details

A PARTLY 18TH CENTURY ORMOLU-MOUNTED GILTWOOD PIANO SIGNED BY ORPHEUS
Medium:Ivory, Wood
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:All other types of objects, Furniture and Lamps
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