GRAND PIANO
Creator(s): Steinway & Sons (Maker)
On view in: French Drawing Room
About this object
Marjorie Merriweather Post purchased this mahogany, Louis XVI-style grand piano from Steinway & Sons in Manhattan on February 13, 1924.
The piano case features a checkerboard marquetry pattern with carved decoration, gilt details, and oval painted medallions in grisaille with classical female figures on a blue ground. It has three elaborate double shaft legs in carved gilt wood.
- Object name:
- GRAND PIANO
- Made from:
- Checkered mahogany
- Made in:
- New York, USA
- Date made:
- 1923
- Size:
- 226.1 cm (89 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 33.184
- Class:
- FURNITURE
- Signature marks:
- INSCRIPTIONS Steinway & Sons New York; Steinway Foundry Casting; Tubular Metallic Action Frame Pat.; Steinway & Sons Trade Mark Registered U.S.PAT.OFF. [Inside piano] NUMBER C. 221298 [Inside piano]
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973