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Period: 18th Century
Antique Very Early Possible Late 17th - Early 18th Century Bronze Cow Bell
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A heavy bronze cow bell with clanger. Sharp loud sound.
Dimensions: 9 3/8" H x 5 5/8" W
Condition: Wear consistent with age, nicely patinated.
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Rustic Antique 18th Century Musical Instruments
Materials
Brass
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. Crafted in Italy circa 1780, the large Classical Roman musical instrument featured two ...
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Italian Neoclassical Antique 18th Century Musical Instruments
Materials
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Harpist, 18th Century Drawing
Located in Perth, GB
18th.entury unframed pencil drawing of an Harpist.
Category
Antique 18th Century Musical Instruments
Materials
Paper
Antique Print of a Moorish Song by Shaw, 1773
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled 'De Mizmoune'. Old print depicting a music sheet with the 'Mizmoune' (Moorish song), a Dance and a Turkish song. Originates from the first Dutch editon of an int...
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Antique 18th Century Musical Instruments
Materials
Paper
Rare Low Walnut Italian Baroque Period Cellist Lectern
Located in Montreal, QC
Rare Low Walnut Italian Baroque Period Cellist lectern.
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century Musical Instruments
Materials
Walnut
Antique Mounted School Bell, English, Bronze, Oak, Pine, Georgian, Circa 1800
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique mounted school bell. An English, bronze bell on oak and pine plinth, dating to the Georgian period, circa 1800.
Of superb proportion ...
Category
British Antique 18th Century Musical Instruments
Materials
Bronze
Antique George III Period Square Piano by Beck
Located in London, GB
Antique George III period square piano by Beck
English, 1788
Height 81cm, width 148cm, depth 52cm
This elegant instrument is a square piano, a type popul...
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English George III Antique 18th Century Musical Instruments
Materials
Wood
18th Century French Maple Decorative Harp with Hand Painted Chinoiserie Motifs
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a living room with this elegant antique pedal harp. Crafted in France circa 1780, the single action musical instrument features 36 recently repl...
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French Louis XV Antique 18th Century Musical Instruments
Materials
Maple
Louis XVI Serinette in the Form of a Miniature Commode by Richard, Paris, 1775
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A very rare Louis XVI period serinette or bird organ in the form of a transitional style gilt bronze mounted and marquetry inlaid miniature commode in the manner of gilbert, by Robert Richard, Paris.
With a label for ' RICHARD - maitre facteur d’orgues et mécanicien / Rue de richelieu à la bibliothèque Du Roy / Paris 1775'.
This rare Serinette or Bird Organ has a wooden cylinder barrel mounted by twelve pins and linked to twelve sound pipes. A crank attached to the front panel controls the bellows that activates the mechanism.
The exceptional marquetry inlaid case is in the form of a gilt bronze mounted transitional style miniature commode. The top of the commode is inlaid with a landscape scene with buildings, opening to an interior with an allegory of Love Conquering All, represented by two doves perching on a bow and quiver. The front of the commode depicts two obelisks centred by a Fine musical trophy and each side is inlaid with panels depicting the Medici Vase. The back of the commode is decorated with floral marquetry.
A closely related Serinette dating from circa 1770, also in the form of a miniature commode, with the marquetry case stamped by the master marqueteur Leonard Boudin, is in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
The term serinette is derived from serine, French for finch. The instrument worked like a small barrel organ with a barbed cylinder, wind box and lead pipes and produced a high, thin sound in imitation of birds. Other versions included a merline, which copied blackbirds and a turlutaine, which copied curlews. Used to teach caged birds to sing tunes, different barrels could be inserted to train different birds. It first appeared in France circa 1730 and became a popular drawing-room toy for fashionable women. An interesting painting commissioned in 1751 for Louis XV by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin and now in the collection of the Louvre, depicts a refined lady seated in her salon playing a bird organ to encourage her bird to sing.
Robert Richard
Robert Richard was a Parisian organ and harpsichord maker and the mécanicien du roi to Louis XV and Louis XVI and was based in the Bibliothèque du Roi in rue de Richelieu.
Initially working alongside the Cliquot family who acted as 'facteur d'orgue du Roi', he is recorded as building an organ for the church of Notre-Dame de Quebec, in Montreal in 1753 (destroyed in 1759) and as the inventor of a mechanical concert shown in an engraving by d'Eisen in 1769.
Canon Jean Marie De La Corne described Robert Richard as : ''Le plus habile ouvrier de paris, fameux mechanitien et Homme de probité''.
French, Dated 1775.
Literature:
Pierre Kjellberg, The French Furniture of the 17th century, The Editions of the Amateur, 2008
Count Francois de Salverte, Cabinetmakers of the 18th century, Editions of Art and History, 1934
Raymond Russell, Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue of Musical Instruments, Volume I - Keyboard Instruments,(London, 1968; p. 69.)
Elizabeth Miller...
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French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century Musical Instruments
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Wood
Collection of 18 Prints of Musical Instruments from Gabinetto Armonico, 1722
Located in valatie, NY
A collection of 18 framed prints from engravings of musical instruments from the book by Gabinetto Armonico, which was published in 1722. The book had a total of 150 instruments. The...
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Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century Musical Instruments
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Paper
Continental Wood Pocket Sundial and Compass 1780ca
Located in Firenze, IT
A carved Continental wood pocket sundial and compass, with precision carved numbers and a small stringline, 1.5 cm high, 6.5 cm wide, 4.5 cm deep
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German Neoclassical Antique 18th Century Musical Instruments
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