Italian Polychrome Decorated Parcel Gilt and Painted Wood Harpsichord
Attributed to Franciscus Faber (active 1631) Italian, possibly 17th century; the painted case and stand probably Venetian, 18th century
The wing-shaped case with hinged lid painted to the interior with an Italianate architectural capriccio of classical ruins, columns and a distant landscape beneath an amber sky, the exterior with polychrome landscape and floral panels within rocaille cartouches on a pale green ground; the single-manual keyboard with boxwood natural-key platings and dark accidentals, incorporating enharmonically split keys, with two 8-foot registers and a short-octave bass compass; the case raised on a conforming parcel-gilt and painted stand with foliate-carved, shaped apron and five cabriole legs ending in scroll feet.
Height 41 inches (104 cm), length Instrument case: length of spine 76 inches (193 cm), width from spine to cheek 28 5/8 inches (72.6 cm), excluding front buttresses; case height 8 5/8 inches (21.9 cm).
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Attributed to Franciscus Faber (active 1631) Italian, possibly 17th century; the painted case and stand probably Venetian, 18th century
The wing-shaped case with hinged lid painted to the interior with an Italianate architectural capriccio of classical ruins, columns and a distant landscape beneath an amber sky, the exterior with polychrome landscape and floral panels within rocaille cartouches on a pale green ground; the single-manual keyboard with boxwood natural-key platings and dark accidentals, incorporating enharmonically split keys, with two 8-foot registers and a short-octave bass compass; the case raised on a conforming parcel-gilt and painted stand with foliate-carved, shaped apron and five cabriole legs ending in scroll feet.
Height 41 inches (104 cm), length Instrument case: length of spine 76 inches (193 cm), width from spine to cheek 28 5/8 inches (72.6 cm), excluding front buttresses; case height 8 5/8 inches (21.9 cm).
Condition
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