321.321 Necked bowl lutes (-5)

Sgra snyan. A waisted wooden lute, the back carved with longitudinal ridges and painted black and gold. The circular vellum soundtable painted green. A crescent-shaped sound-hole lies between the top of the table and the base of the instrument's neck. The distal end of the fingerboard and the rectangular finial to the curved peg-box painted with a design of flowers, foliage and fruits. Six turned wooden (?boxwood) pegs for 3 pairs of strings. Peg-box broken and mended. One peg absent. Vellum table split.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
M3.12.62/1
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 867 x 260 x 135 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
wood; hide; paint; gold; metal; vegetable fibre; FI
CATEGORY
Musical Instruments
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