Sales catalogues: Knight, Frank & Rutley

Date:
2nd October 1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/12/241
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogues: Knight, Frank & Rutley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    10 11 16 ig 18 19 4 A late 18th century French pianette, with a five-octave compass, contained in a mahogany case, with two stops, one for muting, the other for symmetry, supported on pierced folding end-supports Se *,* Said to have been the property of Marie Antoinette. 30 yo SAno, See Illustration. A 19th century French piano, with ivory keys, enclosed in a mahogany case and fitted work-drawer below, on Empire carved and gilt end-supports united by a turned stretcher, 2 /¢. 8 wide A HARPSICHORD, by ANDREAS RucKERS, Antwerp, ¢. 1630, 20 with green and gilt painted case enclosing a converted 18th Yr. century action, the inside of the lid painted with an allegory OS Tila Music, by Pye Codde, and a painted soundboard, on six square qi tapering legs, 7 //t. 6 long See Illustration. , A 19th century French piano, by A. Parr, Paris, with a rectangular , gilt case painted on the outside with pastoral scenes and flowers, Le hor v the inside painted with a country scene and musical oa on os Apnea turned legs, 5 /¢. 7 wide A 16TH CENTURY ITALIAN HARPSICHORD, with cypress wood LEG interior, enclosed in an outer case, painted floral panels and the V hie inside painted with a seascape and. classical figures, on a 17th, century scrolled and pierced stand, 6 ft, 4 wide é 2/2 A French piano, in a box ease, fitted as a work-box To A French violin, with deeply curved back, the scroll in the form of af, Yes , a hand holding @ roll, 2.77. 1, and a oes by_Breton, Paris, /tag. an instrument of three- pitater size, | /t. 8 Erté An 18th century mandoline of Milanese type, inlaid with arabesques ¢ > / 2 in mother-o’-pearl, | /¢. 11, and an early 1&th century Italiane | guitar, with slightly rranded back, inlaid with thin stringing, Be Gucl A mandoline, by ANtonrius VINAcCIA, 1762, with pear- oor gna body inlaid with mother-o’-pearl and Pontice alli OG 4 another 18th century mandoline, similarly decorated, 2 /¢. An 18th century mandoline, inlaid with mother-o’-pearl, ebony andg ba J tortoiseshell, 1 /¢. 11, a 19th century zither of unusual desion” 2 Jt, and a balgarina, by StrpHen Koz, Mittenwald, 1762, with narrow grooved shaped body, carved with figures, 2 ft. 5 and flowers, 2./¢. 7, and a mandoline, by FRANCESCO PRESBLER, Milan, 1765, with lute-shaped body, inlaid with thin stringing, 1 ft. 9 A guitar, by Jose Carpina, Cadiz, with flat back, 2 /t. 6, and travelling case, and a mandoline, with fluted back and pierced. / head inlaid with mother-o’-pearl, 2 /¢., and travelling case A guitar, by Gapr & Son, Copenhagen, the body painted with swags uf RS A French double guitar (two instruments side by side), 2./¢. 6, a Spanish guitar, the finger-board marked with Roman numerals, 2 ft. 2, and a German guitar of unusual outline, inlaid with