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Museum Lyre Grand Piano by J.C Schleip Berlin from 1825, Empire
Located in Berlin, DE
Lyre piano attributed to Johann Christian Schleip, Berlin, around 1825, case veneered with mahogany
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Antique 1820s German Musical Instruments

Materials

Bronze

Antique English Choir Trophy Award Plaque Copper Repousse c1938 Lyre Harp
Located in Shreveport, LA
Antique English Choir Trophy Award Plaque Copper Repousse c1938 Lyre Harp. Direct from England
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Vintage 1930s British Other Musical Instruments

Materials

Copper

English 19th Century Brass Herbalist Scale with Central Column and Lyre Motif
Located in Atlanta, GA
An English brass herbalist scale from the 19th century, with column and lyre details, mounted on a
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Antique 19th Century English Scientific Instruments

Materials

Brass

1950's Style Zimmermann Baby Grand Piano Yellow Formica Tubular Steel Piano Lyre
Located in Leeds, GB
cheeks have black contrasting stripe down the cabinet. The minimal tubular steel piano lyre is
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Mid-20th Century German Musical Instruments

Materials

Steel

18th Century French Louis XVI Carved Giltwood Wall Barometer & Thermometer
Located in Dallas, TX
, France, circa 1760 and hexagonal in shape, the scientific instrument features its original hand painted
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Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Scientific Instruments

Materials

Glass, Giltwood, Parchment Paper

Rebuilt Antique Steinway Model A Grand Piano Gloss Black Fluted Barrel Legs
Located in Leeds, GB
openwork, arabesque design of stylised foliage with a central lyre motif. The antique styled, serpentine
Category

Antique Late 19th Century German Musical Instruments

Materials

Brass

Beuloff Baby Grand Piano Cabriole Legs Hand-Painted Classical Motifs Gilt Accent
Located in Leeds, GB
hand-painted with flowers and foliage and gilt accents The traditionally shaped two-pedal piano lyre
Category

Early 20th Century German Musical Instruments

Materials

Brass

Rebuilt Steinway Model B Grand Piano Arabesque Music Desk1886 Fluted Barrel Legs
Located in Leeds, GB
arabesque design featuring a central lyre motif surrounded by stylised tendrils and foliage. The serpentine
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Antique Late 19th Century German Musical Instruments

Materials

Brass

Rare Antique 1901 Steinway Model B Rosewood Grand Piano Louis XV Rococo Restored
By Steinway & Sons
Located in Dayton, OH
music desk features an oxbow shaped back support carved with a lyre trimmed in curtain swags on a
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Early 20th Century American Louis XV Musical Instruments

Materials

Fruitwood, Rosewood

Pleyel Chinoiserie, Louis XV Style with Red Chinese Lacquer & 24 Karat Water Gil
By Pleyel
Located in New York, NY
a serpentine foliate-carved apron embellished with gilt fliers-de-lys. The lyre-shaped pedal
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Antique 1890s French Louis XV Musical Instruments

Materials

Lacquer

18th Century Gold French Gilded Wood Barometer, Antique Parisian Thermometer
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A rare antique finely worked French barometer with lyre shaped crest thermometer above a large
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Antique Late 18th Century French Empire Scientific Instruments

Materials

Giltwood

Renaissance Style Biese Hof Upright Piano Barley Twist Legs High Relief Carvings
Located in Leeds, GB
of intertwining vines, grapes and foliage with carved musical instruments and central lyre motif
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Antique 1870s German Renaissance Musical Instruments

Materials

Brass

Francke Upright Piano Rococo Style Carved Mahogany High Relief Scroll Legs
Located in Leeds, GB
in high relief. The carved, front panel features a central lyre surrounded by flowers, foliage and
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Antique Late 19th Century German Rococo Musical Instruments

Materials

Mahogany

Rebuilt Steinway Model A Grand Piano Contrasting Rosewood Brass Fittings
Located in Leeds, GB
. Piano has an eighty-five note keyboard and a three-pedal lyre The piano lyre features two square
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Antique Late 19th Century German Musical Instruments

Materials

Brass

Georg Fortner Upright Piano Mahogany High Relief Carvings by Julius Bechler
Located in Leeds, GB
. The front panel is carved with musical instruments and a central lyre in high relief. The candlesticks
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Antique Late 19th Century German Musical Instruments

Materials

Mahogany

Rebuilt Steinway Model M Grand Piano Gloss Black Cabinet Spade Legs
Located in Leeds, GB
-eight note keyboard and a two-pedal lyre. Piano lid prop stick has an indented shorter prop to allow
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Mid-20th Century German Musical Instruments

Materials

Brass

Rebuilt Steinway Model O Grand Piano Gloss Black Spade Legs
Located in Leeds, GB
eighty-eight note keyboard and a two-pedal lyre. Piano lid prop stick has an indented shorter prop to
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Late 20th Century German Musical Instruments

Materials

Brass

Rebuilt Steinway Model S Baby Grand Piano Black Gloss Cabinet Spade Legs
Located in Leeds, GB
eighty-eight note keyboard and a two-pedal lyre. Piano lid prop stick has an indented shorter prop to
Category

Mid-20th Century Musical Instruments

Materials

Brass

Rebuilt Steinway Model O Grand Piano Gloss Black Cabinet Spade Legs
Located in Leeds, GB
-eight note keyboard and a two-pedal lyre. Piano lid prop stick has anindented shorter prop to allow the
Category

Mid-20th Century German Musical Instruments

Materials

Brass

Rebuilt Steinway Model O Grand Piano Black Gloss Cabinet Spade Legs
Located in Leeds, GB
-eight note keyboard and a two-pedal lyre. The piano lyre features two square upright supports and two
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Early 20th Century German Musical Instruments

Materials

Brass

Rebuilt Steinway Model O Grand Piano Polished Walnut Spade Legs
Located in Leeds, GB
. Piano has an eighty-eight note keyboard and a two-pedal lyre The Steinway logo is inlaid in wood on the
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Early 20th Century German Musical Instruments

Materials

Brass

Antique Napoleon III Parisian Giltwood Barometer, "Bodeur a Paris", Circa 1830
Located in Dallas, TX
draped with a floral swag. The entire shape of the barometer is akin to a lyre, which was Apollo’s
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Antique 1830s French Napoleon III Scientific Instruments

Materials

Wood, Giltwood, Glass

Empire Style Ibach Model 2 Grand Piano Mahogany Case Ormolu Mounts
Located in Leeds, GB
12 unique instruments made as exhibition models for a regional exhibition in Dusseldorf in 1902. The
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Early 20th Century German Empire Musical Instruments

Materials

Mahogany

Rococo Style Steinway Model B Grand Piano Hand-Painted Scenes Fete Galante
Located in Leeds, GB
with a central lyre motif decorated with draping swags. The three-pedal piano lyre with brass
Category

Early 20th Century German Rococo Musical Instruments

Materials

Wood, Paint

Rebuilt Steinway Model M Grand Piano Black Gloss Cabinet Spade Legs
Located in Leeds, GB
has an eighty-eight note keyboard and a two-pedal lyre. Piano lid prop stick has an indented
Category

Vintage 1950s German Musical Instruments

Materials

Brass

Rebuilt 1881 Steinway & Sons Model D Concert Grand Piano Burr Walnut
Located in Leeds, GB
desk and fluted, barrel legs. The music desk is an arabesque cut-out design with a central lyre motif
Category

Antique Late 19th Century German Musical Instruments

Materials

Walnut

Louis XV Style Ormolu-Mounted Tortoiseshell Clock and Barometer Set by Gleizes
By E. Gleizes Paris
Located in London, GB
further measuring instruments for temperature etc, line the lengths. Beautifully shaped, with delighful
Category

Antique 19th Century French Rococo Scientific Instruments

Materials

Ormolu

Søren Jensen Maple Grand Piano Caryatid Legs Hand-Painted by Gudmund Hentze
Located in Leeds, GB
square, tapered legs with bronze female nude, caryatids adorning the top. The piano lyre features gilted
Category

Early 20th Century Danish Musical Instruments

Materials

Metal

19th Century Italian Carved Louis XVI Style Giltwood Barometer
Located in Rio Vista, CA
baroque taste. The large barometer features a large carved frame in a banjo form with a lyre motif. The
Category

Antique 19th Century Italian Louis XVI Scientific Instruments

Materials

Metal, Brass

French Late 19th Century Louis XVI St. Giltwood Barometer
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
carvings of scrolls and foliate throughout with a lyre shape above the painted barometer façade. At the top
Category

Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Scientific Instruments

Materials

Giltwood

Rococo Style Steinway Centennial Concert Grand Carved Rosewood
Located in Leeds, GB
carved, Classical meander and acanthus in high relief. The two-pedal piano lyre features carved inverted
Category

Antique Late 19th Century German Rococo Musical Instruments

Materials

Rosewood

King Edward VII Royal Bluthner Piano Exhibited in Paris Exhibition 1900
Located in Leeds, GB
foliage. Musical instruments sit centrally in the design. Columnar, Empire style gilt mounts stand each
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Antique Late 19th Century German Art Nouveau Musical Instruments

Materials

Ormolu, Metal

Wilh Steinberg WS-D275 Concert Grand Piano Bespoke For York Minster
Located in Leeds, GB
closed. The piano lyre features two square upright supports and three brass pedals. Piano has an eighty
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2010s Chinese Musical Instruments

Materials

Brass

20th Century English Solid Silver Music Sheet Stands, Carrington & Co, c.1910
By Carrington & Co
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
playing a lyre standing above scrolling acanthus leaves with a frieze of leaves below. Hallmarked English
Category

20th Century British Musical Instruments

Materials

Silver

Schiedmayer Grand Piano Walnut Carved Cheeks Filigree Music Desk Faceted Legs
Located in Leeds, GB
. The piano lyre is a traditional design with two brass pedals. The lid stay is a simple rod in form
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Antique Late 19th Century German Neoclassical Musical Instruments

Materials

Brass

Large 19th Century Bronze Balance Scale
Located in Dallas, TX
center pedestal in an elongated urn form transitioning into the mechanism above that combines a lyre
Category

Antique Mid-19th Century English Belle Époque Scientific Instruments

Materials

Bronze

Large 19th Century Bronze Balance Scale
Large 19th Century Bronze Balance Scale
H 29 in W 21.5 in D 11.5 in
Chinese Chippendale Style Schiedmayer Piano Oriental Scenes Embossed Japanning
Located in Leeds, GB
central lyre motif with gilt accents. The two-pedal, square lyre design mimics the Malborough piano legs
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Antique Late 19th Century German Chinese Chippendale Musical Instruments

Materials

Wood, Mahogany

French Mid-19th Century Concert Grand Piano Signed Pleyel
By Pleyel
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
three tapered concave top legs with beaded ormolu borders and casters, and a central lyre with two
Category

Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Musical Instruments

Materials

Ormolu

Louis XVI Style GBaby Grand Piano by Gaveau à Paris
By Gaveau
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
serpentine shaped frieze panels, centred to each side with a gilt-bronze trophy mount of a lyre and trumpets
Category

Vintage 1910s French Louis XVI Musical Instruments

Materials

Ormolu

Arts and Crafts Ibach Grand Piano Mahogany Designed by Dutch Architect Cuypers
Located in Leeds, GB
mahogany cabinet is polished so as to emphasize the quality of the wood used. The minimal rectangular lyre
Category

Early 20th Century German Arts and Crafts Musical Instruments

Materials

Brass

Renaissance Style, Gebruder Knake Upright Piano Carved Oak High Relief
Located in Leeds, GB
carved lyre. The front side panels are individual in design. The left depicts an intertwined, arabesque
Category

Antique Late 19th Century German Renaissance Musical Instruments

Materials

Brass

Very Fine Louis XV Style Piano by Francois Linke, Signed., Stamped by Zwiener
By François Linke
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
keypad, over scalloped sides and a lyre form pedal support, raised on six cabriole legs, each headed by
Category

Antique Late 19th Century Musical Instruments

Materials

Wood

Important Ormolu-Mounted Amaranth, Kingwood and Satine Parquetry Grand Piano
By Henry Dasson
Located in New York, NY
allegorical of the Triumph of Peace. The lyre shaped pedal stamped 68250, on tapering legs with floral
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Antique Mid-19th Century French Louis XVI Musical Instruments

Materials

Bronze

Victorian Sterling Silver Lyre Candle Holders
By Harrison Brothers & George Howson 1
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive pair of antique Victorian English sterling silver lyre
Category

Antique 19th Century English Victorian Candlesticks

Materials

Silver, Sterling Silver

Antique Orchestra Chair with Lyre Back
Located in Denton, TX
instruments. Measures: Seat height goes up to 23".
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Antique 19th Century European Neoclassical Revival Side Chairs

Materials

Brass

Antique Orchestra Chair with Lyre Back
Antique Orchestra Chair with Lyre Back
H 32.25 in W 15.5 in D 14.75 in
Novelty Silver Mounted Lyre Decanter Hukin & Heath
By Heath & Middleton
Located in Northampton, GB
millesimal fineness (parts per thousand) of 925. Lyre a stringed musical instrument part of the lute-family
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Antique Late 19th Century British Late Victorian Barware

Materials

Silver, Sterling Silver

Novelty Silver Mounted Lyre Decanter Hukin & Heath
Novelty Silver Mounted Lyre Decanter Hukin & Heath
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H 9.45 in W 6.3 in D 3.15 in
Antique Ellis & Co. 1920s Sterling Silver Lyre Candle Holders
By Ellis Jacob Greenberg
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
lyre candlesticks; an addition of our ornamental silverware collection. These exceptional antique
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Vintage 1920s British Candlesticks

Materials

Sterling Silver

18th Century Italian Carved Giltwood, Silvered and Painted Decorative Wall Lyre
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a music room, den or office with this elegant and colorful antique wall mounted lyre
Category

Antique Late 18th Century Italian Neoclassical Decorative Art

Materials

Giltwood

Spanish Baroque Style 1900s Bleached Oak Fratino Table with Carved Lyre Base
Located in Atlanta, GA
lyres, reminiscent of musical instruments, add a touch of whimsy and visual interest to the table's
Category

Early 20th Century Spanish Baroque Console Tables

Materials

Oak

Greek figurine of a little Eros riding on a dolphin, holding a lyre
Located in EL CAMPELLO, ES
ITEM: Figurine of a little Eros riding on a dolphin, holding a lyre with remains of polychromy
Category

Antique 15th Century and Earlier Greek Classical Greek Antiquities

Materials

Pottery

Antique Cast Iron Lyre Bouquet of Flowers and Fruit Vine Garlands Table Mirror
Located in Munich, DE
good condition and shows no sign of rust. The lyre, the instrument associated with Apollo, it is his
Category

Antique 1860s German Table Mirrors

Materials

Iron

Basalt Wedgwood Teapot with Medallions of Man with Lyre and Lady on Pedestal
By Wedgwood
Located in Boston, MA
sides. One side has a medallion of a man playing a lyre, while the other side has a medallion of a
Category

Antique 1880s English Neoclassical Tea Sets

Materials

Ceramic, Stoneware

"Arcadian Scene with Lute, Lyre & Guitar, " Detailed Art Deco Drawing by Ulreich
By Eduard Buk Ulreich
Located in Philadelphia, PA
playing instruments, with other figures seated in a garden below, accompanied by a deer. The Arcadian
Category

Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Drawings

Materials

Paper

Large Antique Venetian Paint Decorated, Carved & Gilt Mahogany Wall Mirror c1920
Located in Big Flats, NY
having central musical instruments (lute, lyre and clarinet) with flanking stylized palmette finials over
Category

Early 20th Century Wall Mirrors

Materials

Mirror, Mahogany

A Large 19th Century Vienna Porcelain Vase w/ Ormolu Mount, Signed Wagner
By Royal Vienna Porcelain
Located in New York, NY
paneling, referencing the 19th century. The lyre is one of the oldest known stringed instruments
Category

Antique 19th Century Austrian Louis XVI Porcelain

Materials

Bronze

Stunning Meissen Style Centrepiece
Located in Southall, GB
instruments, a lyre, violin and classical guitar. They stand beneath a ornate basket design wreathed in
Category

Late 20th Century European Rococo Centerpieces

Materials

Porcelain

Stunning Meissen Style Centrepiece
Stunning Meissen Style Centrepiece
H 26.78 in W 15.75 in D 15.75 in
French Charles X Period Ormolu And Mirror Centerpiece Plateau
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Ormolu supports below blocks which are decorated by musical instruments all below a raised lyre with
Category

Antique 19th Century French Charles X Centerpieces

Materials

Ormolu

Encaustic Painted Basalt Vase, Wedgwood, circa 1770
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
skillful mastery of the lyre, a stringed instrument similar to a small harp. His music was said to be so
Category

Antique Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Pottery

Materials

Stoneware

Encaustic Painted Basalt Vase, Wedgwood, circa 1770
Encaustic Painted Basalt Vase, Wedgwood, circa 1770
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H 13.78 in W 8.67 in D 6.7 in
Antique French Giltwood Barometer Thermometer, Circa 1815
Located in Dallas, TX
Although constructed circa 1815 as a scientific instrument, this French giltwood barometer is a
Category

Antique Early 19th Century French Empire Decorative Art

Materials

Glass, Wood, Giltwood

Pair Of Continental 19th Century Louis XVI St. Giltwood Wall Decor
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
instruments in both hands. The maiden to the left holds two castanets, while the maiden to the right is
Category

Antique 19th Century Unknown Louis XVI Decorative Art

Materials

Giltwood

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Lyre Instrument For Sale on 1stDibs

With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the lyre instrument you’re looking for. Frequently made of metal, wood and bronze, every lyre instrument was constructed with great care. Your living room may not be complete without a lyre instrument — find older editions for sale from the 18th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 20th Century. Each lyre instrument bearing neoclassical, Louis XVI or Empire hallmarks is very popular. You’ll likely find more than one lyre instrument that is appealing in its simplicity, but Jacques Adnet, Bow Porcelain and C. Maniere produced versions that are worth a look.

How Much is a Lyre Instrument?

The average selling price for a lyre instrument at 1stDibs is $9,500, while they’re typically $1,175 on the low end and $518,903 for the highest priced.