House and Garden 
WEBER PIANO IN LOUIS SEIZE CASE 
Art Rooms where can be found pianos decorated 
by Tojetti, Alma-Tadema and Blashfield. These 
instruments in particular deserve notice as crea¬ 
tions of decorative art worthy of a place beside the 
treasures of the famous French epochs. There is 
a Louis XIV. grand, hand carved and embellished 
with cartouches containing exquisite groups of 
women and children dancing and playing musical 
instruments, in the Graeco-Italian style. The 
case is enameled in that pale apple green so 
congenial to the decoration of the French Renais¬ 
sance. The groups are astonishingly graceful 
and charming. 
Another gem is “a symphony in red,” the 
suggestion of which is due to M. Jean de Reszke. 
1 he piano is mahogany. A female figure in the 
centre of the lid holds aloft a lamp, whose 
light shines upon and through the clouds of amors 
that are Hying toward it, and radiates all the fig¬ 
ures that adorns the case. One turns in this art 
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