Pochette
Dancing was an expected aristocratic accomplishment. Instruction was given at home by a visiting dance master, who played a small fiddle to provide music for the lessons. The compact, slender shape of these instruments made them easy to transport and gave them the name pochette, which suggests that they were carried in one's coat pocket.
Description: Cornerless body, arched back, neck, pegbox and scroll all carved of one piece of unfigured maple, ebony fingerboard raised on wedge bearing "49" inked on treble side, one-piece top with fat F holes, no purfling, four truncated arrowhead pegs, deeply waisted ebony tailpiece, endpin set in a crossgrained insert in tail.
Description: Cornerless body, arched back, neck, pegbox and scroll all carved of one piece of unfigured maple, ebony fingerboard raised on wedge bearing "49" inked on treble side, one-piece top with fat F holes, no purfling, four truncated arrowhead pegs, deeply waisted ebony tailpiece, endpin set in a crossgrained insert in tail.
Artwork Details
- Title: Pochette
- Date: 19th century
- Geography: Italy?
- Culture: probably Italian
- Medium: Wood
- Dimensions: L. 36.5 cm 14-3/8 in.); Body L. 13 cm (5-1/8 in.); Fingerboard L. 20 cm (7-7/8 in.)
- Classification: Chordophone-Lute-bowed-unfretted
- Credit Line: Purchase, Clara Mertens Bequest, in memory of André Mertens, 1991
- Object Number: 1991.247.1
- Curatorial Department: Musical Instruments
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