Mandolin

Angelo Mannello American, born Italy

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 684

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.

#Pedro Aperte, Cordobesa (Habanera) Dennis Cinelli, mandolin & Darren O'Neill, guitar Darren O'Neill, engineer Musical Instrument East (India) Gallery, June 11, 2007

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  1. Pedro Aperte, Cordobesa (Habanera) Dennis Cinelli, mandolin & Darren O'Neill, guitar Darren O'Neill, engineer Musical Instrument East (India) Gallery, June 11, 2007
  2. 9465. Mandolin
Mandolin, Angelo Mannello (American, Morcone, Italy 1858–1922 New York), Spruce, tortoiseshell, ivory, nickel-silver, metal,, American

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