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Transverse Flute

Date:: ca. 1720–40
Geography:: Paris, France
Medium:: Rosewood, ivory, silver
Dimensions:: L. 65.8 cm (25 7/8 in.); external diameter from head to foot 2.9 cm (1 1/8 in.) to 2.5 cm (1 in.); diameter of mount 3.6 cm (1 7/16 in.)
Classification:: Aerophone-Blow Hole
Credit Line:: Purchase, Robert Alonzo Lehman Bequest, 2005
Accession Number:: 2005.365

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 684

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Marking: Brand stamp on all three joints: GARION / dolphin.
References

Kerr Dobney Jayson. Watteau, Music, and Theater. Ed. Katharine Baetjer Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2009, pg. 138-139, fig. 63, ill.
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