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Lot 230
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Pasquale Vinaccia (Naples, b 1806; d 1885) A Neapolitan mandolin Naples, 1929

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Description

  • Pasquale Vinaccia
  • A Neapolitan mandolin
  • labelled Napoli, Anno 1829, Pasquale Vinaccia, Strada di Chiaja No 180
  • Naples
the body of maple with fluted and purfled ribs and shaped capping strip, the table with oval sound hole and inlaid with tortoiseshell scrollwork, tortoiseshell scratch plate, the neck overlaid with tortoiseshell with bone and ebony stringing, the head similar, the tortoiseshell fingerboard edged with mother of pearl, shaped boxwood reverse pegs