Masterpiece

"CABRETTE"; French Bagpipe. Made By Benoit AMADIEU in PARIS. (1804-1877) This exceptional instrument is that played at the Universal Exhibition of Paris and the inauguration of the Effel Tower in 1889. Made by the most celebrated Cabrette maker, considered to be the...

ITALIAN HARPSICHORD by POLIZZINO in ROMA, 17th c. Hand signed on the first key:" J. Petrus Polizzinus, Roma fecit 1634" (or 1639?). Beech manual with 27 natural ivory plated and 18 accidentel of black pearwood, on a spruce frame. C1/E1 - C5. Two 8 feet registers....

Specially made for James de Rothschild, 1835-1836. Serial n°:4890. Astonishing signature on the name-board:"PLEYEL & Cie / in APPENZELL"... The furniture, spruce veneered, is shaped like Swiss table called money-changer table or banker-table. Two stringed note....

A Romantic guitar byNicolas GROBERT, c.1830. Stamped on the stock of the neck and on a soundboard brace. Spruce back with maple veneered, typical of the french romantic guitar. Fingerboard and peghead of ebony veneered. Period case. Length: 92,1cm Sounding length:...

Attributed to Cornelius VAN DER DOES in AMSTERDAM, c.1820.  CORNEILLE CHARLES EMMANUEL VAN DER DOES. (Voorburg, 1769 – Amsterdam, 1827) The case of mahogany, the front panel with gilded upper moulding terminating in a scroll supported on a fluted column with a...

LUTE by Bartoloméo EBERSPACHER in FLORENCE, XVIIth century. Handwritten label: "BARTOLOMEO EBERSPACHER / in FIORENZA xx93". Because of the illegible first numbers of the date, we suppose it is 1693. The body is made of 17 ivory ribs edged with ebony fillets. Each rib...