The Queen’s Piano made with 24ct Gold Leaf
- by Chris
The piano was built in 1856 by the firm S & P Erard , For Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, This elaborately decorated instrument by Erard was intended as a showpiece for the State Rooms at Buckingham Palace. The gilded case is decorated in the French early eighteenth-century style with cherub. The piano is gilded with 24ct Gold Leaf has been painted by the miniature painter François Théodore Rochard.


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