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Violin
- Place of origin:
Mittenwald (probably, made)
- Date:
ca. 1850 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Unknown
- Materials and Techniques:
Carved and planed pine and sycamore, with inlaid marquetry of various coloured woods
- Museum number:
10-1871
- Gallery location:
In Storage
This minature violin was most likely a tourist souvenir, thought to have been made in about 1850 in Mittenwald, a town in Bavaria, famous for producing violins, zithers and other stringed instruments. Its finial is decorated with the carved head of an old man and the back is decorated at the bottom with a townscape made up of marquetry of different coloured woods, a speciality of Bavaria, especially Augsburg, from the 1560s onwards.