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Mandolin

Angelo Mannello American, born Italy
ca. 1900
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 684
Neapolitan style bowlback mandolin with seventeen inlaid nickel-silver frets on a tortoiseshell fingerboard. The bowl is extraordinarily decorated wiht a rich design of checkerboard pattern ivory and tortoiseshell separated by nickel-silver strips, and a profuse decoration in ivory inlay depicting a naked woman, putti playing instruments, grotesques, and floral designs. These decorative motifs continue on the fingerboard and peghead of the instrument. The maker's name is inlaid around the oblong soundhole.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Mandolin
  • Maker: Angelo Mannello (American, Morcone, Italy 1858–1922 New York)
  • Date: ca. 1900
  • Geography: New York, New York, United States
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Spruce, tortoiseshell, ivory, nickel-silver, metal,
  • Dimensions: 24 9/16 × 7 13/16 × 5 3/8 in. (62.4 × 19.8 × 13.6 cm)
  • Classification: Chordophone-Lute-plucked-fretted
  • Credit Line: Gift of the family of Angelo Mannello, 1972
  • Object Number: 1972.111.1a–c
  • Curatorial Department: Musical Instruments

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