Piano Ebonized cherry, bird’s-eye maple,
ash, spruce, gilt, ivory
Hallet, Davis and Company
(working 1850-1957)
Boston, Massachusetts, ca. 1875
Virginia Carroll Crawford Collection, 1983.197
This elaborate piano, made for display at the
Centennial Exposition held in Philadelphia in
1876, was created to show the maker’s wide
range of decorative skills.