Object Details
- Description
This pochette was made by an unknown maker, provenance unknown, probably 19th century. It is a composite instrument with a one-piece table of spruce with orange-brown varnish, body made from a single piece of maple painted black, crude maple neck, pegbox and scroll, and orange-brown varnish.
This object is composed of unrelated fragments and does not appear to have ever functioned as a musical instrument in this form. The elongated narrow table with S-holes is joined to a solid back with four hollow facets. The violin neck is terminated in a crude pegbox and scroll. Acquired from the collection of Leopoldo Franciolini in 1892.
Leopoldo Franciolini (1844–1920) was an Italian antique dealer who flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is remembered as a fraudster who sold faked and altered historical musical instruments.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- Date made
- 19th century
- Physical Description
- spruce (overall material)
- maple (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2 3/4 in x 20 3/8 in x 3 1/4 in; 6.985 cm x 51.7525 cm x 8.255 cm
- Object Name
- pochette
