The movement of this piano was made by German-born instrument maker Frederick Beck. The case is attributed to Swedish cabinetmaker Christopher Fuhrlohg. Before coming to London about 1767, Fuhrlohg had trained in Paris during the first flowering of the Neoclassical style. The shape of this piano and its gilt bronze mounts are evidence of Fuhrlohg's Paris training; the scroll-work inlay is English in its interpretation. Furhlohg is renowned for fine pictorial marquetry like the circular panel veneered on the front of the piano. It depicts one of the muses associated with lyric poetry, dance and music.