ID 992805
Lot 12 | A SIX-COURSE DOUBLE STRUNG CITTERN
Estimate value
£ 20 000 – 40 000
PROBABLY URBINO SCHOOL, MID-16TH CENTURY, THE SOUNDBOARD PROBABLY REPLACED IN THE EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Unlabelled the one-piece body and neck of fruitwood with bas relief carving depicting the allegory of The Judgement of Paris accented with carving of a floral design, poplar and fruitwood purfling and geometric inlays of stucco, the two-piece soundboard, possibly later, of spruce with poplar and fruitwood purfling, geometric inlays of stucco and a carved rose inlaid at the sound-hole, the neck and peghead heavily carved with gargoyles (grotesque faces) and female figures terminating in a later plumed finial
Overall length 30 7/8 in. (78.5 cm.); string length 19 5/16 in. (49 cm.)
Provenance
Acquired by Sir Edward Croft-Murray before 1964 and thence by descent.
Literature
‘In sweet Musik is such Art’, Exhibition Catalogue, Warwick County Museum, 1964, no 39.
Exhibited
‘In sweet Musik is such Art’, Warwick County Museum, 1964 (as English).
| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
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| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
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| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
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