INDIA, PROBABLY CALCUTTA, CIRCA 1900

Details

A MINIATURE IVORY MODEL OF A PIANO
INDIA, PROBABLY CALCUTTA, CIRCA 1900
On four feet, the panels and boards realistically carved, the openwork decoration consisting of dense fern scrolls, the front opening to reveal a set of shelving, the white and black keys beneath a cover, with box
5½in. (14cm.) high

Provenance

From the Collection of H.R.H The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdown, which Sold at Christie's King Street, 14 June 2006, lot 819.
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Special notice

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Lot Essay

This miniature piano was given as a wedding present to H.R.H. The Princess Margaret on the occasion of her marriage to Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon, on 6th May 1960, by Lady Mary Strachey, Lady In Waiting to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II from 1944-1947.

The finely painted music score appears to be The Gallop, a popular dance composition by Johann Strauss II (d. 1899).

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