BEULOFF GRAND PIANO
Entire cabinet hand-painted in Empire style motifs
Beuloff grand piano for sale with a cream case with cabriole legs. Entire cabinet hand-painted in Empire style motifs including wreaths, vases, winged putti, lyres, rinceaux, swags and flowers. Piano has a new langer action.
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Price: £POA
Piano Details
- Ref: 2713
- Wood: Cream
- Finish: Hand-Painted
- Size [cm]: length: 150 width: 145
Empire Style
All Empire ornament is governed by a rigorous spirit of symmetry reminiscent of the Louis XIV style. Ornaments are entirely symmetrical in composition: antique heads with identical tresses falling onto each shoulder, frontal figures of Victory with symmetrically arrayed tunics, identical rosettes or swans flanking a lock plate, etc. Like Louis XIV, Napoleon had a set of emblems unmistakably associated with his rule, most notably the eagle, the bee, stars, and the initials I (for Imperator) and N (for Napoleon), which were usually inscribed within an imperial laurel crown. Motifs used include: figures of Victory bearing palm branches, Greek dancers, nude and draped women, figures of antique chariots, winged putti, mascarons of Apollo, Hermes and the Gorgon, swans, lions, the heads of oxen, horses and wild beasts, butterflies, claws, winged chimeras, sphinxes, bucrania, sea horses, oak wreaths knotted by thin trailing ribbons, climbing grape vines, poppy rinceaux, rosettes, palm branches, and laurel.
Greco-Roman motifs include: stiff and flat acanthus leaves, palmettes, cornucopias, beads, amphoras, tripods, imbricated disks, caduceuses of Mercury, vases, helmets, burning torches, winged trumpet players, and ancient musical instruments (tubas, rattles and especially lyres). Despite their antique derivation, the fluting and triglyphs so prevalent under Louis XVI are abandoned
