Viola d'Amore pochette
Description: Shallow case with flat back. Reddish-Brown varnish. The blocks without sharp angles, the sound-board edged with ebony and ivory inlay. Flaming sound-holes. The tail-piece with sloping top; peg-box with twelve ivory pegs, terminating in a carved female head. Six melody strings and six sympathetic strings, passing under the keyboard, are fastened to ivory pins at the bottom of the instrument. To the instrument is attached a miniature bow
Artwork Details
- Title: Viola d'Amore pochette
- Date: 18th century
- Geography: France
- Culture: French
- Medium: Wood, ebony, ivory
- Dimensions: Overall: 7.6 x 34.3cm (3 x 13 1/2in.)
Weight: under 40 lbs - Classification: Chordophone
- Credit Line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889
- Object Number: 89.4.969a
- Curatorial Department: Musical Instruments
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