Pandharpuri Tambura

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19th century · Gourd, wood, bone, ivory · Musical Instruments

This beautiful nineteenth-century tambura is one of the best examples to be preserved from that period in a museum. It has a gourd body attached to a wood neck and belly. It is decorated with bone and ivory inlay and paintings of mythological figures in the South Indian Mysore style.

Artist

Unknown

Date

19th century

Medium

Gourd, wood, bone, ivory

Culture

Indian

Department

Musical Instruments

Credit line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Bressler, 1994