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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)
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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
Accession Number: 1983.496
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