EditorialBinding. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of P. Boston [Mass.] : Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1884. Twentieth century English binding by Stanley Bray. Binding of turquoise goatskin with jewels and onlays and tooled in gold to a design featu...
EditorialStringed Harp. Dated: c. 1939. Dimensions: overall: 35.8 x 28.5 cm (14 1/8 x 11 1/4 in.) Original IAD Object: 48" high. Medium: watercolor and graphite on paper.
EditorialA geisha leans on the box of her shamisen, A geisha reads a letter by candlelight, while she leans against the chest containing her shamisen (stringed instrument). A willow can be seen in the garden through the paper (shoji) windows. The poem on the wa...
Editorialmantel clock, Anonymous, approx. 1800, glass, wood, enamel, brass, Total: 36 x 26 x 15.8cm 360 x 260 x 158mm, Bell: 30.8 x 23.5 x 13.8cm 308 x 235 x 138mm, Base: 6 x 26 x 15.8cm 60 x 260 x 158mm, flute, music making, lyre, Empire fire-gilded brass mant...
EditorialRecto: Three Musicians in Front of the Albergo Della Pace, 1810, Felice Giani, Italian, 17581823, Recto:Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on white laid paper, Sheet of a drawing book; folio 59; pages 118, 119. Obverse: Three rows of three designs...
Editorialmantel clock, Anonymous, approx. 1800, glass, wood, enamel, brass, Total: 36 x 26 x 15.8cm 360 x 260 x 158mm, Bell: 30.8 x 23.5 x 13.8cm 308 x 235 x 138mm, Base: 6 x 26 x 15.8cm 60 x 260 x 158mm, flute, music making, lyre, Empire fire-gilded brass mant...
EditorialL'Ouye (Hearing) from the series Les Cinq Senses (The Five Senses), Fran?ois Boucher, French, 1703 1770, Gabriel Huquier, French, 16951772, Etching and engraving on paper, Two allegorical figures, one standing (left), one seated (right), surrounded by ...
Editorialmantel clock, Anonymous, approx. 1800, glass, wood, enamel, brass, Total: 36 x 26 x 15.8cm 360 x 260 x 158mm, Bell: 30.8 x 23.5 x 13.8cm 308 x 235 x 138mm, Base: 6 x 26 x 15.8cm 60 x 260 x 158mm, flute, music making, lyre, Empire fire-gilded brass mant...
EditorialStudy for 'Wedding Procession', Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 1923, Pastel crayon on paper, Figure and drapery details: above, left, head of female figure seen from the back; right, study of costume and hands of male figure playing a stringed musical in...
EditorialCartouche with a Genius, Livre de Cartouches ? divers usages (Book of Cartouches for Different Uses), Fran?ois de Cuvilli?s the Elder, Belgian, active Germany, 1695 - 1768, Franz Xaver Andreas Jungwierth, German, 17201790, Fran?ois de Cuvilli?s the Eld...
EditorialFragment, Medium: linen warp, cotton weft Technique: block printed on plain weave, Stripe of a floral motif in straight repeat at the left. At the right an alternation of two figures; a woman playing on a stringed instrument and a harlequin. Both appea...
EditorialAlfred Stelzner, violin, spruce, total: length: 586 mm (total length); sounding string length: 331 mm; width: 208 mm (max. body width); height: 39 mm (max. rib height), label (instrument construction): in the instrument and brand on the back: label: No...
EditorialJo?o Dos Santos Couceiro, mandolin, spruce, Total: length: 620 mm (total length); length: 303 mm (body); width: 245 mm (body); height: 145 mm (body), label (instrument making): glued inside the instrument: JOAO DOS SANTOS COUCEIRO, RUA S. FRANCISCO DE ...
EditorialToyohara Kunichika, Ishiya musume O-ume, from the series: Flower poems on opened fan, color woodcut, Total: Height: 37.00 cm; Width: 25.20 cm, signed: Signature: Kunichika hitsu, red seal (Utagawa school), Publisher: Kagaya Kichibei, censorship mark, p...
EditorialPer Kraft, Joachim Tielke, Ang?lique, converted to the Swedish Theorbo, tortoiseshell, ivory, mother-of-pearl, wood, Total: length: 1045 mm (total length); width: 307 mm (width of top); depth: 173 mm (depth of body), unmarked, stringed instruments, bar...
EditorialJoachim Tielke, viola da gamba, spruce, total: length: 1220 mm (total length); length: 688 mm (body length); length: 665 mm (string length); width: 385 mm (max. width: 385 mm (max. width of soundboard); height: 125 mm (max. height of ribs), label (inst...
EditorialC. H. B?hm, B?hm-Waldzither Mod. 2), spruce, rosewood, beech, maple, mother of pearl, nickel silver, brass, metal, Total: length: 670 mm; width: 320 mm; depth: 75 mm, label (instrument making): glued into the body of the instrument: B?hm's Waldzither a...
EditorialJoachim Tielke, Guitar, Spruce, Ebony, Wood, Total: Length: 912 mm (total length); Length: 425 mm (body length); Width: 233 mm (max. width: 233 mm (max. width of top); height: 97 mm (max. height of ribs), engraving: at the rib joint ivory stripes with ...