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Description: Asymmetrically reshaped and cut down body, four-piece softwood front, two-piece beech back with wings on lower bouts, double purfling, ebony tailpiece with mechanical fine tuning device for the A-string, four ebony tuning pegs with incised lyre and music scroll decoration, ebony fingerboard, pegbox grafted to neck, beech scroll.
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Title: Violoncello
Date: 18th century
Geography: Austria
Culture: Austrian
Medium: Wood, metal
Dimensions: Total L.: 124 cm (48-7/8 in.)incl. retracted endpin; Body L.: 72.5 cm (28-5/8 in.); Greatest W. : 42.3 cm (16-3/4 in.)
Classification: Chordophone-Lute-bowed-unfretted
Credit Line: Gift of Nat and Yanna Brandt, in memory of Sophie Kroyt, 1983
Object Number: 1983.487.2
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