This virtuoso architectural bureau was made for Catherina the Great and they call it "Apollo and the arts, a musical marvel. The desk is equipped with a musical box and ingenious mechanisms and contains innumerable secret buttons, compartments and drawers.
Catherina was also enraptured. She paid the cabinetmaker 25.000 roubles for it and presented him with a gold snuff box. Although I think it is a rather pompous furniture I would have loved to hear the musics it can play.
Amazing pieces of furniture when you consider they didn't have the tools and technology we have nowadays.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenWow! It is a beaut.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenWow! That is beautiful!
BeantwoordenVerwijderenÉ mesmo uma peça muito bonita e imponente, aproveito para desejar um bom Domingo.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenAndarilhar
Dedais de Francisco e Idalisa
Livros-Autografados
Ja ik ben ook wel nieuwsgierig hoe het klinkt.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenDoes it still play?
BeantwoordenVerwijderenOh me too! I wonder if they ever demonstrate it.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenWhat a beauty! Love to hear it play.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenI can understand why the czar had an upraising.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenThat's really fancy.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenIt is a little over the top for these days Marianne, but I bet they thought it was the bees knees back then 😉
BeantwoordenVerwijderenknappe foto' en je uitleg maakt er een interessant logje van Marianne
BeantwoordenVerwijderengroeten
What a beauty!
BeantwoordenVerwijderen