Y A RUSSIAN ROSEWOOD, GONCALO ALVES, TULIPWOOD AND MARQUETRY GRAND PIANO, THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Y &nbspA RUSSIAN ROSEWOOD, GONCALO ALVES, TULIPWOOD AND MARQUETRY GRAND PIANO
BY HERMAN LICHTENTHAL, THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
With seven octave range, metal framed, stamped variously '3842' .... inscribed in pencil 'No 807', the marquetry panels signed indistinctly to possibly include 'CUNU' and 'CREMER'
97cm high, 159cm wide, 200cm long overall

Please note, Dreweatts have applied for a de minimis exemption licence for the ivory in this lot (D921CP4SY)

Provenance:
Dimitri Tiomkin. A similar piano by Lichtenthal was in the Glinka Museum of Musical Culture, Moscow.
Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkim was a Ukrainian born composer and conductor. Classically trained in St Petersburg, Russia in the early 1900s, he moved to Hollywood in 1929 and wrote film scores mostly for Westerns. He received 22 Academy Award nominations and won four Oscars during his lifetime. In 1967 he left America following the death of his wife and moved back to Europe. In 1972 Tiomkin married Olivia Cynthia Patch and lived in London and Paris.

This piano was obtained from Dimitri Tiomkin's widow, and the piano is thought to have been purchased in the late 20th Century from St Petersburg. Image available of Dimitri and Olivia Tiomkin in their London home where this piano can be seen.