Piano
1865-1868 (made)
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These descriptions have been transcribed from department files:
Upright piano, satinwood, inlaid and gilded with Gothic decoration. Three silk panels on the front, two embroidered flowers against a light green ground, the centre with a painted coat of arms, "Non Timee" with two lions above three blue doves. Flanking this are applied half columns with gilt capitals. Above the columns are inlaid formal flowers beneath a continouus frieze of pierced circles. At the sides, small rabbitted circles with pierced trefoil centres are repeated beneath the short columns which support the gothic arch at each side of the keyboard section. Dark inlay in scrolls and flower forms is set against the light wood ground, effect a transit on to the sides where six intaglio squares set in gilt circles contain geometrical inlay of circles and five part flowers, all-flanked by quatrefoils and a double line terminating in trilobes, motifs which increase in size in proportion to their distance from the mid point. Pierced and engraved brass hinges connect both top and keyboard lid. There is a folding music-rack that disappears under the instrument's lid.
The compass is eighty-five notes, AAA — a4. The standard measurement is 493mm. The naturals are covered with ivory and fronted by ivory rather than bone or celluloid, and measure 22mm wide by 15mm long. The sharps are of a synthetic plastic material that is coloured black and is glued on wooden cores: they measure 100mm in total length and 10.5mm in width.
The piano is fitted with a tape-check sticker upright action with overdampers. The hammers are felt-covered. There are two brass-faced pedals, a damper pedal to raise all the dampers, and a soft pedal that shortens the hammer stroke.
The piano is straight-strung on a wooden frame with an iron hitchpin rail. The first eight courses are overspun unichord. The next nineteen courses are bichord overspun, while the plain wire courses to the top of the compass comprise thirty-six bichord courses and twenty two trichord courses. The overdampers extend to b2. The soundboard is of spruce. The barring appears to be of conventional type.
Upright piano, satinwood, inlaid and gilded with Gothic decoration. Three silk panels on the front, two embroidered flowers against a light green ground, the centre with a painted coat of arms, "Non Timee" with two lions above three blue doves. Flanking this are applied half columns with gilt capitals. Above the columns are inlaid formal flowers beneath a continouus frieze of pierced circles. At the sides, small rabbitted circles with pierced trefoil centres are repeated beneath the short columns which support the gothic arch at each side of the keyboard section. Dark inlay in scrolls and flower forms is set against the light wood ground, effect a transit on to the sides where six intaglio squares set in gilt circles contain geometrical inlay of circles and five part flowers, all-flanked by quatrefoils and a double line terminating in trilobes, motifs which increase in size in proportion to their distance from the mid point. Pierced and engraved brass hinges connect both top and keyboard lid. There is a folding music-rack that disappears under the instrument's lid.
The compass is eighty-five notes, AAA — a4. The standard measurement is 493mm. The naturals are covered with ivory and fronted by ivory rather than bone or celluloid, and measure 22mm wide by 15mm long. The sharps are of a synthetic plastic material that is coloured black and is glued on wooden cores: they measure 100mm in total length and 10.5mm in width.
The piano is fitted with a tape-check sticker upright action with overdampers. The hammers are felt-covered. There are two brass-faced pedals, a damper pedal to raise all the dampers, and a soft pedal that shortens the hammer stroke.
The piano is straight-strung on a wooden frame with an iron hitchpin rail. The first eight courses are overspun unichord. The next nineteen courses are bichord overspun, while the plain wire courses to the top of the compass comprise thirty-six bichord courses and twenty two trichord courses. The overdampers extend to b2. The soundboard is of spruce. The barring appears to be of conventional type.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 6 parts.
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| Brief description | Piano, English, 1865-1868, case designed by Charles Bevan, instrument manufactured by Collard & Collard |
| Physical description | These descriptions have been transcribed from department files: Upright piano, satinwood, inlaid and gilded with Gothic decoration. Three silk panels on the front, two embroidered flowers against a light green ground, the centre with a painted coat of arms, "Non Timee" with two lions above three blue doves. Flanking this are applied half columns with gilt capitals. Above the columns are inlaid formal flowers beneath a continouus frieze of pierced circles. At the sides, small rabbitted circles with pierced trefoil centres are repeated beneath the short columns which support the gothic arch at each side of the keyboard section. Dark inlay in scrolls and flower forms is set against the light wood ground, effect a transit on to the sides where six intaglio squares set in gilt circles contain geometrical inlay of circles and five part flowers, all-flanked by quatrefoils and a double line terminating in trilobes, motifs which increase in size in proportion to their distance from the mid point. Pierced and engraved brass hinges connect both top and keyboard lid. There is a folding music-rack that disappears under the instrument's lid. The compass is eighty-five notes, AAA — a4. The standard measurement is 493mm. The naturals are covered with ivory and fronted by ivory rather than bone or celluloid, and measure 22mm wide by 15mm long. The sharps are of a synthetic plastic material that is coloured black and is glued on wooden cores: they measure 100mm in total length and 10.5mm in width. The piano is fitted with a tape-check sticker upright action with overdampers. The hammers are felt-covered. There are two brass-faced pedals, a damper pedal to raise all the dampers, and a soft pedal that shortens the hammer stroke. The piano is straight-strung on a wooden frame with an iron hitchpin rail. The first eight courses are overspun unichord. The next nineteen courses are bichord overspun, while the plain wire courses to the top of the compass comprise thirty-six bichord courses and twenty two trichord courses. The overdampers extend to b2. The soundboard is of spruce. The barring appears to be of conventional type. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | The instrument is signed on the nameboard behind the keys in polychrome transfer: Collard & Collard. At the treble end of the wrest-plank there is a die-stamped legend: 480 Collard & Collard. Four names, presumably of workmen who made the case, are die-stamped in the wood: Wm Dockett, J. O'Neill, H. Richmond and W. ./Meadley. The top key is die-stamped, presumably with the name of the keyboard maker: W. Hutchinson. |
| Gallery label | Piano
ENGLISH: 1865-1868
Designed by Charles Bevan
Action by Collard & Collard, London
Case probably by Marsh and Jones, Leeds and London
Satinwood parcel gilt and inlaid with various woods, painted silk panels
Bevan was one of the most talented of the commercial designers who translated the furniture designs of the leading Gothic Revival architects of the 1860s, such as Seddon and Burges, into pieces for the growing middle class market.(pre July 2001) |
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| Accession number | W.6:1-1968 |
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| Record created | July 19, 2001 |
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