Miniature Violin
Description: 1/64 size; one-piece maple back with faint horizontal figure; similar ribs; unfigured neck and scroll; spruce (?) top of even medium grain; ebony pegs, nut, tailpiece, saddle and tail pin; ebonized fingerboard; single purfling; brown and orange varnish.
Artwork Details
- Title: Miniature Violin
- Date: early 20th century
- Geography: Czechoslovakia or Germany?
- Culture: Czech or German
- Medium: Wood
- Dimensions: Body L. 17.9 cm (7-1/16 in.)
Total L. 30.5 cm. (12 12 in.)
String L. 16.5 cm (6-1/2 in.) - Classification: Chordophone-Lute-bowed-unfretted
- Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1989
- Object Number: 1989.385.2
- Curatorial Department: Musical Instruments
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