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Angelo Mannello  (American, Morcone, Italy 1858–1922 New York)

Date:
ca. 1900
Geography:
New York, New York, United States
Medium:
Spruce, tortoiseshell, ivory, metal
Dimensions:
Overall: 19.8 x 13.6 x 62.4cm (7 13/16 x 5 3/8 x 24 9/16in.) Label: 19.7 x 62.5cm (7 3/4 x 24 5/8in.) String L. 33 cm (13 in.); Soundhole Diam. 6.7 x 3.5 cm (2 5/8 x 1 3/8 in.)
Classification:
Chordophone-Lute
Credit Line:
Gift of the family of Angelo Mannello, 1972
Accession Number:
1972.111.1a-c

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 684

  • Description

    Neapolitan style bowlback mandolin with seventeen inlaid nickel-silver frets on a tortoiseshell fingerboard. The bowl is extraordinarily decorated wiht a rich design of checkerboard pattern ivory and tortoiseshell separated by nickel-silver strips, and a profuse decoration in ivory inlay depicting a naked woman, putti playing instruments, grotesques, and floral designs. These decorative motifs continue on the fingerboard and peghead of the instrument. The maker's name is inlaid around the oblong soundhole.

  • References

    Libin Laurence in Our Tuneful Heritage: American Musical Instruments from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exhibition catalogue., Brigham Young University. Provo, Utah, 1994, pg. 59-60, fig. 13, 14, ill.

    A Checklist of American Musical Instruments. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1989, pg. 28, ill.

    Ed. John P. O'Neill. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The United States of America. Third 2005. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1987, pg. 95, fig. 67, ill.

    Libin Laurence. American Musical Instruments in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1985, pg. 19, fig. 6, ill.

    Libin Laurence. "Musical Instruments in The Metropolitan Museum." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (1978), Vol. XXXV, No. 3, pg. 45, ill.



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