Table organ, with key
Table organ, with key
Great Britain, London
1820-1824
John Moore Late Handley & Moore
Metal, wood, leather, steel, brass, organ alloy, fabric; carpentry, mechanical work, casting, carving, al fresco painting
86 x 62 x 40 cm
On the plate: “John Moore / Late / Handley & Moore / Clerkenwell / London”
The organ is in a rectangular frame structure case, decorated with al fresco paintings, with protruding socle and cornice, a ribbed frieze, with narrow ornately shaped panels in the Gothic style on both sides of the front panel, on four massive ribbed supports. Diagonal struts are inside the case on the wide sides, musical movement with thirty-two pipes made of organ alloy united in two registers, a fusee, a spring motor, bellows, a receiver and a wooden pinned barrel for twelve tunes.
Winding key is in the set.
1060.1-2/ММП