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Lot 27
Sale 422 - Gerard L. Cafesjian Collection
Oct 12, 2015
7:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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Estimate
$8,000 -
12,000
Price Realized
$20,000
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
A Napoleon III Gilt Bronze Mounted Boulle Marquetry Upright Piano
THE CASE BY GEORGES ALPHONSE BONIFACIO MONBRO, PARIS; THE MOVEMENT BY ERARD, MID-19TH CENTURY
inlaid throughout with foliate scrolls and flower heads, mounted above the keyboard with a female mask and a pair of two-light candelabra flanked by musical putti at the sides, the whole supported on cherub-mask headed monopodia terminating in paw feet.
Height 44 5/8 x width 62 1/4 x depth 24 inches.
