SIGNED 'GODEFROI HOLTZMANN', CIRCA 1775

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A LOUIS XVI FRUITWOOD, VERNIS-MARTIN AND TWO-TONE PARCEL-GILT HARP
SIGNED 'GODEFROI HOLTZMANN', CIRCA 1775
The molded column headed by an acanthus scroll and floral sprays, the sound board pierced with clusters of sound holes and decorated with mirrored trophies and floral wreaths above Chinoiserie figures playing musical instruments in a garden setting, with a deep harmonic curve, on a foliate-carved base with a guilloche serpentine edge, the top of the case signed 'G Holtzmann rue du fourre St. jairmait à Paris', the black, gilt and polychrome decoration extensively refreshed, the base later

拍品专文

Harps by Godefroi Holtzman are found in several public collections such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Museo Civico Medievale in Bologna.

A virtually identical harp with movement signed by Jacques-Georges Cousineau (d. 1824) was sold anonymously, Christie's, New York, 30 March 1999, lot 274.