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The fingerboard is lavishly decorated with plaques of mother-of-pearl, rather than ivory, the material more often used for this purpose in the 17th century. Rather than intended to be played, it is more likely that it was converted into a decorative item from a bygone age to hang on a wall or be used as an artist's prop.","physicalDescription":"'The date is engraved on a mother-of-pearl heart inset in the belly. Small body of forty-four ribs of yew with ivory stringing between and which a finely sting-decorated lace. The pine belly, carved with a rose, has a heart-shaped mother-of-pearl inset and ivory purfling. The fingerboard has panels of engraved mother-of-pearl surrounded by strips of ebony and ivory, The back of the neck has narrow longitudinal bands of ivory and ebony. The head has similar deocration but slightly coarser, and a section of the neck has been used for facing the upper pegbox. The main pegbox has twelve strings and the upper eight, the pegs being modern, of rosewood set with mother-of-pearl shirt buttons'. (Baines, Anthony. <u>Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum: Part II: Non-keyboard instruments</u>. 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Its previous provenance remains unknown.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Chitarrone, made in Italy, possibly in 1626","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Baines, Anthony. <u>Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum: Part II: Non-keyboard instruments</u>. London, 1998, p.35."}],"production":"Possibly made in 1626. A date resembling '1626' is engraved on a mother of pearl plaque inset into the belly or soundboard of the lute. Anthony Baines thinks the instrument was converted into a chitarrone \"in the eighteenth century\", but such an instrument would have fallen out of fashion amongst musicians by about 1700 if not earlier.  Collecting curiosities associated with the late 16th and early 17th centuries for decoration is more characteristic of antiquarians of the 1820s and later.","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"CHITARRONE \r\nItalian; possibly 1626 \r\nNeck of ebony and ribs of yew both banded with ivory. The fingerboard has engraved ivory panels.   \r\n\r\nCatalogue No.: 7/14 \r\n \r\nThe authenticity of the label bearing the date 1626 has been doubted. It has been suggested that the instrument was converted from a lute into a chitarrone at a later date.\r\n\r\n7755-1862","date":{"text":"pre September 2000","earliest":null,"latest":"2000-08-31"}}],"partNumbers":["7755-1862"],"accessionNumberNum":"7755","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1862,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-12","recordCreationDate":"2001-05-16","availableToBook":true}}