λ A GEORGE II WALNUT BENTSIDE SPINET

λ A GEORGE II WALNUT BENTSIDE SPINET

BY JOANNES HARRIS, LONDON, C.1735-40

the interior decorated in gilt, with birds, flowers and leaves and signed 'Joannes Harris Londoni Fecit', with ebony and ivory keys on baluster and block turned legs

86cm high, 186cm wide

Catalogue Note

Joannes or John Harris (d.1772) was a Boston based maker of harpischords and spinets. English by birth he is known to have been working in London's Red Lion Street by 1730, the year in which he received a patent for a 'new invented harpsichord'. He later emigrated to America and the Thirteen colonies, settling in the North End of Boston in 1768. A spinet which he constructed the following year is currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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