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It was most likely made between 1717 and 1740, the period from which Anciuti's dated instruments survive. Earlier oboes like this example have simple holes bored into them, and only the lower ones are covered with keys, so as to facilitate the natural stretch of the hand. Before the museum acquired this oboe, it formed part of a decorative trophy of old wind instruments that hung on a wall of the Paris apartment of Gioacchino Rossini (1782 - 1868), the great Italian composer of light opera.\r\n\r\nOn loan to the Horniman Museum.","physicalDescription":"\"Ivory, in three joints, carved with foliage in low relief. Also carved on the bell are six dancing female figures, clothed and unclothed. The top of the upper joint is turned in a vase form as in some other Italian oboes of the eighteenth century, insteadbof in a vase form commoner in other countries. Three brass keys with round key-plates, the C key having a fish-tailed touch. Two double holes, The bell has two vent holes and an internal flage.\" (Baines, Anthony. <u>Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard insturments</u>. London, 1998, p. 96.)","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Anciuti, Giovanni Maria","id":"A18196"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"x40240"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"ivory","id":"AAT11857"},{"text":"brass","id":"AAT10946"}],"techniques":[{"text":"carving","id":"AAT53149"},{"text":"boring","id":"AAT53151"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Carved and bored ivory, brass keys","categories":[{"text":"Musical instruments","id":"THES48919"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"FWK","id":"THES48597"},"images":["2010EK2519","2006AU4795","2007BM7790","2006AD0808"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LDHRN (LOAN)","id":"THES49081"},"free":"","case":"B","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Oboe","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Milan","id":"x29007"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1730","earliest":"1725-01-01","latest":"1734-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Length","value":"54.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"<i>Anciuti/ F </i>","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"Anciuti made this.","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Inscribed on bell."}],"objectHistory":"This object formerly belonged to Gioacchino Rossini (1782 - 1868), and formed part of a trophy of instruments that hung on a wall of his appartment in Paris. It was aquired by the South Kensington museum from M, Baur, a Paris-based dealer, for £40 in 1869.\n\nIn 1977 a report on the instrument with measurements and photographs was compiled by Deirdre Daines, London; a scanned copy is retained on the dept object file.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Italian (Milan), Anciuti, 1730-1740","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Baines, Anthony. <u>Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard insturments</u>. London, 1998, p. 96."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Peter Thornton, Capolavori lignei in formato ridotto, in Arte Illustrata, Anno V, n.47, gennaio 1972, (pp. 9-12, pp.50-7, pp.108-110, trans. by Elena Lante-Rospigliosi.\r\nTranslated from the Italian - \"The museum also owns two ivory wind instruments which are beautiful examples of carving, particularly interesting in that they belonged to Rossini. The maker of both was J. M. Anciuti of Milan, one is a recorder and bears the date 1740, the other is an oboe with very gracious young dancers depicted at the lower end (fig. 10).\""}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"dancers","id":"AAT25653"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"OBOE \r\nItalian\r\nBy Johannes Maria Anciuti, Milan, about 1730 \r\nBell inscribed ANCIUTI/ F\r\nIvory; three joints and three brass keys\r\n \r\nNon-Keyboard Catalogue No.: 23/2 \r\n \r\nAnciuti's surviving instruments date from 1717 until 1740. The inclusion of symmetrically arranged keys indicate that the left-hand-over the-right-hand playing position had not yet been fully established.   \r\n\r\nThis instrument was bought for £40 by Carl Engel for the South Kensington Museum, following the death and sale of the instrument collection of the composer Gioacchino Rossini (1782-1868) in Paris. \r\n\r\n1127-1869","date":{"text":"pre September 2000","earliest":null,"latest":"2000-08-31"}}],"partNumbers":["1127-1869"],"accessionNumberNum":"1127","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1869,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-02-12","recordCreationDate":"2001-05-16","availableToBook":false}}