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Objekt 28

Mandola (Milan Mandolin)

Object description

Maker unknown

Milan (?), 1 st half of 19th c.

Repairing of 1792: Giacomo Antonio RizzetU (P1zzetti ?) Riffec it [... ] anno 1792 T (manuscript, paper, body inside); ligatureAG (belly, carved into rose)

Spruce, fine ivory rim, mother-of-pearl (inlays, belly); maple (shell, 26 ribs)

Peg-box with plate, closed In the back; twelve la terally inserted pegs 13 frets (seven fingerboard, six belly, one missing); sixdouble courses

L. 58,5 cm, 28 cm (belly), 33 cm (vibrating strings)

Donation Dr. h.c. Paul Sacher, Pratteln. Lobeck collection

Inv. 1956.494.

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