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Chitarra battente

Object description

Giorgio Sellas (born 1574 or 1596 in Fussen, Venice 1624–1648)

Venice, dated 1641

GIORGIO SE / LLASALLA/ STELLAINVEN/ ETIA 1641

(Carved, mother-of-pearl plates, peg-box)

Conifer (belly); yew(?), ivory veins (rounded back); mother-of-pearl, ebony, ivory (decoration); metal (strings); belly with a fine multi-layered rose

Peg-box; ten pegs inserted in the back

Nine frets (fingerboard); five double courses

L. 89 cm, 46 cm (belly), 58 cm (vibrating strings)

lnv. 1927.271.

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