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Pandharpuri Tambura

19th century
Not on view
This beautiful nineteenth-century tambura is one of the best examples to be preserved from that period in a museum. It has a gourd body attached to a wood neck and belly. It is decorated with bone and ivory inlay and paintings of mythological figures in the South Indian Mysore style.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Pandharpuri Tambura
  • Date: 19th century
  • Geography: India
  • Culture: Indian
  • Medium: Gourd, wood, bone, ivory
  • Dimensions: L. 94.5 cm.; W. 22 cm.; H. 18 cm.
  • Classification: Chordophone-Lute-plucked-unfretted
  • Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Bressler, 1994
  • Object Number: 1994.498
  • Curatorial Department: Musical Instruments

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