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'Belly of four pieces of pine, double purfled [bordered]. A formal floral device is inlaid and engraved in the centre. The back is a later replacement, made of two pieces of sycamore decorated with double lines of purfling with a fancy knot-pattern in the centre. The sides appear to be contemporary with the back. Thin wooden sidelining to the back, none to the belly. Neck with a spliced repair. Pegbox with a carved woman's head with her hear tied back with a bow, and with scrollwork carved in relief on the back. Tailpiece, attached to the hook-bar, and fingerboard are of ebony with ivory stringing. Six boxwood pegs. The neck is still partly fretted with gut.' Anthony Baines: Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard instruments. (London, 1998), pp. 3 - 4.
- Date:
1677 (made) - Maker:
Meares, Richard - Collection:
Victoria and Albert Museum - Inventory number:
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London
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- Materials:Planed ebony fingerboard with ivory stringing; planed and purfled [bordered] sycamore back; planed and purfled pine soundboard, inlaid with an unidentified wood; carved sycamore finial.
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- Inscriptions:Richard Meares, without / Bishopsgate, near Sir / Paul Pinders.[sic] London / Fecit 1677 Richard Meares ... made [this] in 1677.
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- Repository:Victoria and Albert Museum
- Measurements:Length: 121 cm total, Length: 68.5 cm body, Depth: 12.2 cm, Width: 32 cm upper bout, Width: 39 cm lower bout
- View the original record:http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O58970