Sale 6107
London
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13 May 1999
Price realised
GBP 16,100
Estimate
A French red-painted and parcel-gilt decorated grand piano and stool en suite In the Louis XV Chinoiserie Style, By Pleyel Lyon & Cie, Paris, Circa 1890 The shaped case decorated all-over with trees, blossom, exotic birds and butterflies, the hinged top elaborately painted to the reverse with a landscape and a putto riding on the back of a butterfly chasing bird, with satinwood-veneered interior, with serpentine-shaped foliate-carved apron, on acanthus-carved cabriole legs and hoof sabots, with lyre-shaped pedal support; the silk-damask-upholstered duet stool en suite The piano: 59 in. (150 cm.) wide; 41 in. (106.7 cm.) high, lid closed; 86 in. (218.5 cm.) long
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See lot 164 for a note on the firm of Pleyel, who would appear to have become Pleyel Lyon & Cie after 1887.
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