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Viola d'Amore
Viola d'amore, with six playing strings and 12 sympathetic strings, guitar mechanism in the head, head is spade-shaped. Hitchpins on the bottom are leather-covered.
- Date:
1967-68 - Maker:
Montagu Cleeve - Collection:
Bate Collection, Oxford - Inventory number:
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UK, England, Wimbledon
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- Materials:Wood;Plant;Metal;Leather;Skin;Animal
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- Inscriptions:Hoc finxit MONTAGU CLEEVE ab artifice peritissimo MAURICE BOUETTE praeceptus, WIMBLEDON 1967-8 [label inside] M. CLEEVE JUNE 2 1983 M.C.1 [on bridge]
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- Repository:Bate Collection, Oxford
- Measurements:Max L = 710 mm Max W = 230 mm