Pochette

Unknown

18th century · wood, various materials · Musical Instruments

Dancing was an expected aristocratic accomplishment. Instruction was given at home by a visiting dance master, who played a small fiddle to provide music for the lessons. The compact, slender shape of these instruments made them easy to transport and gave them the name pochette, which suggests that they were carried in one's coat pocket. Description: A narrow body with rounded back of ivory, inlaid with four black lines. Sound-board rising in the center. two diamond-shaped sound-holes. Open peg-box of ebony, placed at an angle, terminating in a scroll and carved head. Four ivory pegs.

Artist

Unknown

Date

18th century

Medium

wood, various materials

Culture

European

Department

Musical Instruments

Credit line

The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889