Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
4 December 1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/887
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    21/24 (page 17)
    rT OF. na i hk. (122/ A Harp-Guitar, by M. Levien, London, the body lacquered ro with scrolls and musical trophies, 2 ft. 9 in.; an 18th Century German Cither, with bell-shaped body, 2 ft. “a 10 in.; and a French Cither, with lute-shaped body, in- (| | am laid with thin stringing, 2 ft. ‘7 in. | 3 hes) A Lyre Guitar, by Pacquet D’Aiz, Marseilles, with shaped ist body, the headpiece carved with scrolls and gilt, 3 ft.; a Colascione, by Antonio Gragnani, Livorno, with fluted body inlaid with thin ebony stringing, 4 ft. 8 in.; and a German 18th Century Psaltery with triangular-shaped body, 3 ft. 5 4n. 3 124 A FINE 18TH CENTURY PepaL Harp, by 8S. B Renault and Chatelain, Paris, the table painted with flowers and musical trophies and the fluted pillar carved with acanthus scrolling, 5 ft. 2 in. q i, JG > 2s Dax 18TH CENTURY GERMAN HOOKED Harp, the pillar i decorated with gilt gesso and carved at the top with a negro’s thead, 4 ft. 8 in. high 7 G26) A fine Dital Harp, by Edward Light, London, with lacquered body and heart shape head supported by a Corinthian carved pillar, 2 ft. 10 in. 4405 9) \cf A @a1) An African Marouvane formed of bamboo with strings cut ‘Bs in strips, 1 f¢. 11 in.; an Indian Tamburi, decorated in colours with birds and figures, 2/#. 9in.; an Indian Sarangi painted in colours, 1f#. 9.; and an Indian Chikara in the form of a violin, 1 ft. 4 in. 4 128 A French Violin with deeply curved back, the scroll in the form of a hand holding a roll, 2 ft. 1 in.; and a Violin, by Breton, Paris, an instrument of three- quarter size, i fi 8 am: 2 AY | o . vag /) E. fe 9) An 18th Century N So Mandoline with lute-shaped g ‘s CA body inlaid with mother-o’-pearl, 1 ft. 10 in. ; a Flemish Violin, by Henri Buchon, the body in the form of a sabot,