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MANDOLIN

Mandolin. Culture: American. Dimensions: Height: 24 9/16 in. (62.4 cm) Width: 7 13/16 in. (19.8 cm) Depth: 5 3/8 in. (13.6 cm). Maker: Angelo Mannello (American, Morcone, Italy 1858-1922 New York). Date: ca. 1900. 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.
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Title:
MANDOLIN
Caption:
Mandolin. Culture: American. Dimensions: Height: 24 9/16 in. (62.4 cm) Width: 7 13/16 in. (19.8 cm) Depth: 5 3/8 in. (13.6 cm). Maker: Angelo Mannello (American, Morcone, Italy 1858-1922 New York). Date: ca. 1900. 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.
Technique/material:
Spruce, tortoiseshell, ivory, nickel-silver, metal,
Museum:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Maker:
Angelo Mannello (American, Morcone, Italy 1858-1922 New York)
Credit:
Album / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Releases:
Model: No - Property: No
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Image size:
3276 x 4094 px | 38.4 MB
Print size:
27.7 x 34.7 cm | 10.9 x 13.6 in (300 dpi)
Keywords:
ANATOMY: BONES • ANGELO MANNELLO (AMERICAN, MORCONE, ITALY 1858-1922 NEW YORK) • BONE • CHORDOPHONE-LUTE-PLUCKED-FRETTED • CHORDOPHONES • IVORY • LUTES • MANDOLINS • METAL • METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK, USA • MUSIC INSTRUMENTS • MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS • MUSICAL_INSTRUMENTS • NEW YORK CITY • NEW YORK • NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES • NICKEL • NORTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA • SILVER • SOFTWOOD • SPRUCE • SPRUCE, TORTOISESHELL, IVORY, NICKEL-SILVER, METAL, • TORTOISE SHELL • UNITED STATES • WOOD