BY JOHN BROADWOOD AND SONS, CIRCA 1820

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY, KINGWOOD, EBONY AND BRASS-INLAID UPRIGHT PIANO
BY JOHN BROADWOOD AND SONS, CIRCA 1820
With a pleated-silk damask panel above a hinged cylinder fall, with an inlaid panel inscribed 'John Broadwood & Sons, Makers to His Majesty & the Princesses, Great Pulteney St, Golden Square, London.', on ringed-turned legs with brass caps and castors, the soundboard inscribed in pencil 'WH 2239, DCHS of Bedford', the reverse of the upholstered panel with original blue-chintz lining
71½ in. (182 cm.) high; 44¾ in. (113.5 cm.) wide; 23.5 in. (58.5 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

John Broadwood and Sons, piano-makers to George III, adopted this form of inlaid trade label around 1800. This upright form of cabinet piano-forte, designed in the manner of a French cylinder bureau, was illustrated in Rudolph Ackermann's, 1811 Repository of Arts. Here it was noted that 'the elegance with which they are finished in the different manufactories on the metropolis, have long rendered them an indispensible article for apartments furnished, as well as in the simplist, as in the most costly style. Instruments of this kind, finished in mahogany are highly ornamental, but if in rose-wood and brass, they may be pronounced truly superb'.

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