FRENCH PARCEL-GILT AND WALNUT PEDAL HARP, BY ETIENNE CHAILLOT
MID-19TH CENTURY
£1,134
Auction: Lots 354 - 549 | 16 May at 10am
Description
forty five strings and eight pedals, the column head with gilt gesso relief nymphs and acanthus scrolls on a fluted pillar, signed ‘Etienne Chaillot, Rue St. Honore 338 Paris’ and numbered ‘302’
Dimensions
171cm high, 82cm wide, 60cm deep
Footnote
Note: Etienne Chaillot followed in the tradition of this grandfather Antoine Chaillot and father Pierre Chaillot, Parisien harp makers, who starting in the 1770s continuing on the family business into the middle of the 19th century.