Lot Essay
Steinway & Sons, London, have confirmed that this piano was built in 1911 and recased in this present case in 1912.
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A SATINWOOD AND PAINTED GRAND PIANO, the mechanism by Steinway, No 150589, and decorated by J. Herrmann, the hinged lid painted with a band of foliate scrolls and oval rosettes, the frieze with three roundels, each painted with a woman and music making cherub with a pair of rectangular panels painted with cavorting amorini and flanked by recumbent winged griffins with ribbon-tied husk pendants, on three square-tapering legs, each united by a stretcher with brass castors, the right hand roundell signed J. Herrmann, 1912; and a satinwood piano stool, with an adjustable rectangular cushioned seat with panelled sides, shaped handles and square tapering legs with block feet the piano: 58in. (147cm.) wide; 39in. (99cm.) high; 74in. (188cm.) long (2)
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A SATINWOOD AND PAINTED GRAND PIANO, the mechanism by Steinway, No 150589, and decorated by J. Herrmann, the hinged lid painted with a band of foliate scrolls and oval rosettes, the frieze with three roundels, each painted with a woman and music making cherub with a pair of rectangular panels painted with cavorting amorini and flanked by recumbent winged griffins with ribbon-tied husk pendants, on three square-tapering legs, each united by a stretcher with brass castors, the right hand roundell signed J. Herrmann, 1912; and a satinwood piano stool, with an adjustable rectangular cushioned seat with panelled sides, shaped handles and square tapering legs with block feet the piano: 58in. (147cm.) wide; 39in. (99cm.) high; 74in. (188cm.) long (2)