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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
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Jan 21, 2017 | Christie's | New York | Important American Furniture, Folk Art and Silver | 706 | $****** - ****** | THE WILLIAM CLARK EXCEPTIONAL AESTHETIC MOVEMENT METAL-INLAID SATINWOOD AND CARVED PURPLEHEART MODEL B GRAND PIANO, THE PIANO MOVEMENT BY STEINWAY & SONS (EST. 1853); THE ART CASE DOCUMENTED TO GEORGE A. SCHASTEY & CO. (W. 1873-1894) |
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William Clark (1841-1902), 346 Mount Prospect Avenue, Newark, New Jersey
Probably J. William Clark (c.1867-1928), Newark and Bernardsville, New Jersey, son
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Artistic Furniture of the Gilded Age: George A. Schastey. December 15, 2015-June 5, 2016 (display of piano extended to September 2016).
G.W. Sheldon, Artistic Houses (New York, 1883-1884).
Arnold Lewis, James Turner and Steven McQuillan, The Opulent Interiors of the Gilded Age: All 203 Photographs from “Artistic Houses,” with New Text (New York, 1987), p. 172.
“The Art of the Piano: Reviving George Schastey’s Gilded Age Splendor,” Art Conservator, vol. 6, no. 2 (Fall 2011), pp. 9-11.
Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Nicholas C. Vincent with Moira Gallagher, “Artistic Furniture of the Gilded Age,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, vol. LXXIII, no. 3 (Winter 2016), pp. 2, 14-16, 37, 39, figs. 12-14.
The piano featured prominently in numerous press coverage on the 2016 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, cited above, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Antiques and the Arts.
Moira Gallagher, “George A. Schastey and Company, Gilded Age Cabinetmakers,” American Furniture, Luke Beckerdite, ed. (Milwaukee: Chipstone Foundation, 2016) (working title, forthcoming).
Links to press coverage:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/08/arts/design/peeking-into-the-gilded-age-at-the-met.html?_r=0
http://www.wsj.com/articles/artistic-furniture-of-the-gilded-age-review-1453849028
http://www.antiquesandthearts.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Furniture.pdf
the harp with several cast inscriptions detailing the piano’s patent history; fallboard with gilt stencilling Steinway & Sons./ Patent Grand./ New York./ London. & Hamburg.; front edge of frame below keys with incised serial number 47245 and handwritten inscription in graphite 47245 Johnson; other similar inscriptions comprise you was sent from new Rochell [sic] n.y. good By good By [illeg.] on an interior brace and April 30/ 1882 on the side of one key
