£40,000 - £50,000
Broadwood (c1905) No 48687 Case by Lutyens An important and rare No. 5 Steel Barless Drawing Room grand piano. The case in panelled oak with a latticed music desk; raised on dual fluted square tapering supports united by stretchers. The piano has been sympathetically restored to a recital standard, whilst retaining the original character of the instrument, by Cambridge Pianoforte over a two year period. Provenance: Commissioned from Edwin Lutyens by his fellow London club member, Mr Robert Henry Benson, for his music room at Buckhurst Park (as illustrated in Country Life 18th May 1912 page 727). Full documented provenance accompanies this lot.
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