Violoncello
Two-piece spruce top cut on the quarter; two-piece maple back cut on 45 degrees with faint horizontal figure, similar ribs, maple neck terminates in peg-box and closed scroll with two volutes; opaque orange-brown varnish. (L. Libin, 1983)
Artwork Details
- Title: Violoncello
- Date: late 18th century
- Geography: Saxony, Germany
- Culture: German
- Medium: Maple, spruce
- Dimensions: Total length: 121 cm ; Greatest Body width: 40.15 cm; Greatest height: 9.4 cm
- Classification: Chordophone-Lute-bowed-unfretted
- Credit Line: Gift of Sigrid Nagle and Fritz Spolen, in memory of Virginia Spolen, 1983
- Object Number: 1983.496
- Curatorial Department: Musical Instruments
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